output of #ls -l | cat -ev

[oray]

# ls -l|cat -ev
ls: 0653-341 The file ./vinay does not exist.
ls: 0653-341 The file ./test does not exist.
ls: 0653-341 The file ./dir does not exist.
ls: 0653-341 The file ./tets does not exist.
total 86$
-rw------- 1 sri staff 75 Oct 25 18:23 .TTauthority$
-rw------- 1 sri staff 101 Oct 25 18:23 .Xauthority$
drwxr-xr-x 10 sri staff 512 Oct 25 18:23 .dt$
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sri staff 3970 Oct 25 18:23 .dtprofile$
-rwx------ 1 sri staff 264 Nov 03 17:57 .profile$
-rw------- 1 sri staff 1498 Oct 26 13:14 .sh_history$
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root system 3 Oct 25 18:23 .wmrc$
drwxr-xr-x 2 sri staff 512 Jul 03 2001 AIX-SysInfo-1.0$
-rw-r----- 1 sri staff 30720 Oct 26 12:54 AIX-SysInfo-1.0.tar$
-rw-r--r-- 1 root system 0 Nov 04 19:43 file.txt$
-rw------- 1 root system 1726 Oct 28 12:09 root$
-rw-r--r-- 1 sri staff 245 Oct 26 12:07 s1.txt$
-rw-r--r-- 1 sri staff 364 Nov 04 19:43 t1.pl$
-rw-r--r-- 1 sri staff 328 Oct 26 11:38 t2.pl$
-rw-r--r-- 1 sri staff 143 Oct 26 12:04 t3.pl$
-rw-r--r-- 1 sri staff 345 Oct 26 12:36 t4.pl$

 

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

YOu need a good "fsck -y" on your FS.

Long live king Moshiach !

http://www.7for70.com/

 

[KenCunningham]

There's nothing like a good fsck -y in the morning ;-)

I wonder whether this is the /tmp or /proc directory. If so, these could be ephemeral files which exists while the ls is processed, vbut have gone when cat tries to process them. Just a thought.

 

[KenCunningham]

Sorry - posted before reading your other thread. fsck is your friend.