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Old 03-25-2014
Bug File shows in ls but cannot be accessed

I can do an ls -l CD* and see the following CDTEST userA RW RW R and I an logged on as userA. But if I do an ls -l the file does not appear. If I do a vi CDTEST it tries to create a new file named CDTEST. If I do a mv or rm I get the message no file of name CDTEST found. Any idea what is going on. This is very goofy. Thank you.
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Old 03-25-2014
Are you looking for the file in the same path?
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Old 03-26-2014
What EXACTLY does the following command display(please cut and paste the output):
Code:
ls -l CD*|  cat -vet

This will read the ls -l output. Look for ^I $ or other weird characters.
cat -vet asks cat to display unprintable characters and display the end of the line character with a $. I think you may have garbage in the filename. After you show us what you really have then we can help you rename the file or get rid of it.
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