Re: Creating files/directories with numeric names

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

I'm on ext3, and I had not thought of trying other methods:

[erich@harpo ~]$ echo test > 9test
[erich@harpo ~]$ cat 9test
test
[erich@harpo ~]$ rm 9test
[erich@harpo ~]$ echo test > 9
bash: 9: No such file or directory
[erich@harpo ~]$ cat 9
cat: 9: No such file or directory
[erich@harpo ~]$

Same result, can't make files that have all-numeric names.

eks

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Blunier, Mark wrote:

>> 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
>> The same symptoms for mkdir. This means that some normal things don't
>
> What file system are you using?  Have you tried on another media on a
> different mount point, with a different files system?  Can you create
> the files by any other means such as echo "" > 9 ?
>
> Mark
>
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