Re: File without a name appears in a dired buffer

[Davin Pearson]

Here is what CMD says: I am using cygwin 64 bit.  Note how the empty
file name does not occur, it only appears inside Emacs version 23.1.1:

C:\Downloads\ABBA Discography [24 96]>ls -al
total 22437
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 May 19 06:52 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Jun  7 06:38 ..
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Jun  2 03:00 '1973  Ring 
Ring'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1974  
Waterloo'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1975  ABBA'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1976  All 
About ABBA'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1976  
Arrival'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1977  The 
Album'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1979  
Voulez-Vous'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1980  Super 
Trouper'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 22  2015 '1981  The 
Visitors'
-rwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators 22873347 Nov 19  2015 'ABBA. 
'$'\320\236\320\277\320\270\321\201\320\260\320\275\320\270\320\265'' 
'$'\320\277\321\200\320\265\320\267\320\265\320\275\321\202\320\260\321\206\320\270\320\270''..pdf'
drwxrwxrwx+ 1 Administrators Administrators        0 Nov 19  2015 Pictures
-rwxrwxrwx  1 Davin Pearson  None                359 Jun  2 03:02 a.wav


On Wednesday, June 8, 2016 at 3:17:18 AM UTC+12, Yuri Khan wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum dot mit dot 
> edu> wrote:
> 
> > It's a directory, not a file. And the name is probably some number of
> > spaces.
> 
> That’s unlikely, seeing as the path includes a drive letter. Windows
> does not easily allow space-only names.
> 
> >>   c:/Downloads/ABBA Discography [24 96]:
> >>   total used in directory 1 available 57327936
> >>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators Administrators   0 05-19 06:52      <--- 
> >> here
> >>   drwxrwxrwx  1 Administrators Administrators   0 05-19 06:52 .
> 
> 
> @Davin: What does “dir” in plain old CMD say about this directory? If
> you use Cygwin or MSYS, what does their “ls -al” say?