This probably isn't a backtic problem, but using backtics causes it. ls `ls`
results in file not found errors. ie: bash-3.2$ ls 35ms 40ms 80ms bash-3.2$ ls `ls` ls: cannot access 35ms: No such file or directory ls: cannot access 40ms: No such file or directory ls: cannot access 80ms: No such file or directory bash-3.2$ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Almost certainly we're looking at whitespace characters. "ls" reads the directory and displays the names., but command expansion delivers them as a whitespace-delimited array. Here's the same thing duplicated several ways on AIX. tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway>mkdir whitespace tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway>cd whitespace tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>touch '35ms ' '40ms ' '80ms ' tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls 35ms 40ms 80ms tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls `ls` ls: 0653-341 The file 35ms does not exist. ls: 0653-341 The file 40ms does not exist. ls: 0653-341 The file 80ms does not exist. tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls |cat -vet 35ms $ 40ms $ 80ms $ tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>cd .. tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway>rm -rf whitespace tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>rm '35ms ' '40ms ' '80ms ' tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>touch ' 35ms' '40ms > ' ' 80 ms ' tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls 35ms 80 ms 40ms tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls `ls` ls: 0653-341 The file 35ms does not exist. ls: 0653-341 The file 80 does not exist. ls: 0653-341 The file ms does not exist. ls: 0653-341 The file 40ms does not exist. tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls |cat -vet $ 35ms$ 80 ms^I $ 40ms$ $ tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>rm * tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>touch '35ms 40ms 80ms' tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls 35ms 40ms 80ms tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls `ls` ls: 0653-341 The file 35ms does not exist. ls: 0653-341 The file 40ms does not exist. ls: 0653-341 The file 80ms does not exist. tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls |cat -vet 35ms 40ms 80ms$ tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>rm * tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>touch "`(time sleep 1) 2>&1`" tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls real 0m1.002s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.001s tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 tconway admins 0 Sep 24 15:19 real 0m1.002s user 0m0.001s sys 0m0.001s tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>rm * tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>touch "Hello. I am a unix file. > I'm still just this one single file, but I have many lines > in my name. I even have \"all three\" types of \\quotes in my name" tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls Hello. I am a unix file. I'm still just this one single file, but I have many lines in my name. I even have "all three" types of \quotes in my name tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>ls -l total 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 tconway admins 0 Sep 24 15:15 Hello. I am a unix file. I'm still just this one single file, but I have many lines in my name. I even have "all three" types of \quotes in my name tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway/whitespace>cd .. tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway>rm -rf whitespace tcon...@tsmserv /home/tconway> That last one's a funny one to drop on a new unix user. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
