Re: bug in /bin/ls

[Jim Meyering]

Craig Bourne <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am running RedHat Linux 9.0
> Linux version 2.4.20-6 (address@hidden) (gcc version
> 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Thu Feb 27 10:06:59 EST 2003
>
> I find that files which have names starting with the characters hp are
> invisible to /bin/ls ( also to /usr/bin/find but not to /usr/bin/file
> ).
>
> The following sequence should illustrate:
>
> address@hidden craig]$ mkdir junk
> address@hidden craig]$ cd junk
> address@hidden junk]$ >somefile
> address@hidden junk]$ mkdir somedir
> address@hidden junk]$ >hp
> address@hidden junk]$ >hpsomefile
> address@hidden junk]$ ls
> somedir  somefile
> address@hidden junk]$ find .
> .
> ./somefile
> ./somedir

That's very odd.  I can't reproduce it.
fileutils-4.0x is pretty old.
Would you please try with a newer version of ls?

STABLE
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2
  (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils)

BETA
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2