What's wrong with this picture?

sharky · 07-16-2015, 09:51 AM

Took me a while to see the difference.

Thought there were two files with the same name in a single directory.

Code:

> ls -n
total 32984
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000  7228964 Nov 28  2012 install_flash_player_11_linux_x86_64.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000  7261649 Jul 16 07:41 install_flash_player_11_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 19223824 Oct 29  2012 libflashplayer.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000     4009 Oct 29  2012 readme.txt
drwxr-xr-x 6 1000 1000     4096 Oct 29  2012 usr

netnix99 · 07-16-2015, 10:03 AM

x_x vs x.x

...is there a technical discrepancy caused by this, or just for discussion....

Beryllos · 07-16-2015, 11:15 AM

It would be more challenging if the filename had one or more spaces at the end.

Code:

$ ls -n
total 16
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 29 Jul 16 12:12 spam
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 29 Jul 16 12:12 spam 
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 29 Jul 16 12:12 spam  
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 29 Jul 16 12:12 spam

fatmac · 07-16-2015, 12:33 PM

2 files, similar names (but different), different dates & sizes.