Hidden folder does not show
 

Hi all,

To show the hidden files and folders, we issue the command ls -la. It will list all the hiddens

But in my case, I know the existance of hidden folder and I can cd to it. But when issuing ls -la, it does not show up.

Is there any miracle in this case? Please help me. I'm using Suse Enterprise Linux

Thanks in advance.

Phat

Can you share the name of the hidden directory?

You can try the sync command, the sync command updates filesystems

Hi, this is the name of hidden directory /sapdata/RU5/.ckpt/

Try "ls -lab". The "-b" option will print escape sequences for any non-printable characters. You might have a name with a reverse linefeed or other cursor control sequence in it that garbles the display.

Hi initramfs,

this does not work. when issuing ls -la, we only see . and ..
we cannot use tab key when cd ./ck to get the full name of it. We must manually type cd ./ckpt/
In this hidden folder, we can ls to view the data.

Hi rknichols,

It does not show up too. It's quite weird.

Hi all,

Any idea for my case :(

Maybe the permissions of the directory in question are messed up? I'm not sure if this is possible, but you might have execution permissions on it, but not read permissions. What is the output of ls -l in the directory that is directly above the 'problematic' directory? (We only need the part of the output related to this directory).

By any chance do you have a CDPATH set in your shell? That would allow "cd .ckpt" to go somewhere that was not in the current directory. What does "/bin/pwd" show when you are in that mysterious directory?

You will have a directory called /sapdata/RU5 which has a subdirectory called .ckpt

Hello odiseo77,

When issue ls -l in the direct parent folder of 'problematic folder', we see as normal output. I will show you the result in the next week. Now I cannot access to the system.

Hi rknichols,

CDPATH here you mean is shell environment variable? I will check and let you know later the output of /bin/pwd

Hi JeremyBoden,

Yes, you are "right". When I issue "cd /sapdata/RU5/" and issue "ls -la", we don't see the .ckpt folder (it should be shown up by -a switch of ls command)

In the root of /sapdata/RU5/ we can issue "cd .ckpt/" ( we must type directly, cannot use tab key)and we can see data within .ckpt/

It was caused by the use of the directory separator character '/' in a name.