Originally posted by: raja7

Hi all,
I am unable to enter the below directory.. you please find the below statements.

Note: I am switchover to oracle user aswellas root user, i cant enter that stdb directory. But i entered ARCHIVE directory.

#ls -ltr
total 76615992
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 256 Jun 27 2009 ARCHIVE
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 9641984 Jun 27 2009 cn1.dbf
drwxr-xr-x 2 oracle dba 256 Jun 27 2009 stdb
#cd stdb
ksh: stdb: not found
#cd /stdb
ksh: /stdb: not found
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Try using the "ls -lq" command. On occassions, we find that people create directories with non-display characters in the name, and you need the "ls -lq" to understand what is going on.

Alternatively, try 'cd *stdb*' this way the shell will try and help with the change.

Regards,
George
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Originally posted by: orphy

Another way would be to user the script command and vi the output file called typescript. All the non-printable characters (e.g. Ctrl-H) will show when you vi typescript.
Orphy
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Originally posted by: raja7

Thanks for your inputs George and Orphy,

Now i can open.

Raja K
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

One more technique, even though you have managed to access the directory:

ls -l | cat -vte

r/
R
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