Re: Creating files/directories with numeric names

[Tim McDonough <tim@mcdonough.net>]

Must be something Fedora specific. "touch 9", etc. works as expected 
in Ubuntu 7.04 and 6.06 LTS.

Tim

Erich Schroeder wrote:
> Ok this is the second machine that I've had this happen on and it's 
> giving me both the fits and the creeps.
> 
> Suddenly on an old FC2 machine and a fedora7 machine I can no longer 
> create a file or directory that has a numeric name. IE:
> 
> [root@harpo ~]# touch 9
> touch: cannot touch `9': No such file or directory
> [root@harpo ~]# touch 8what
> [root@harpo ~]# touch 8
> touch: cannot touch `8': No such file or directory
> [root@harpo ~]# rm *what
> rm: remove regular empty file `8what'? y
> [root@harpo ~]#
> 
> 
> The same symptoms for mkdir. This means that some normal things don't 
> work, like upgrading a kernel where rpm needs to create a module 
> directory called '802'.


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