RE: [UUG/MLUG] odd file

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

By the way, you were asked to type one of these commands:

cat tat*
cat *tat*

We already knew that "cat tat" wouldn't work.

Well, the file's gone now, so we'll never know what it was.

Mike


On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Buford, Rick wrote:

> nope...if I try to touch tat in /, it just makes a new one, if I then try to
> remove "tat", it only takes out the one that I touched.
> 
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# cat tat
> cat: tat: No such file or directory
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# rm -f tat
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# dir | grep tat
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# touch tat
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# dir | grep tat
> -rw-rw-r--   1 root     root            0 Dec  3 09:07 tat
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# rm -f tat
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]# dir | grep tat
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     root          119 Dec  1 13:33 tat
> [EMAIL:PROTECTED /]#