Subject: Re: bug in find
From: [email-masked] (Jim Balter)

24 Jan 1997 01:11:44 -0800
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Scott R. Sewall wrote:
> 
> In this case it's not find that is trying to create the file 'out',
> but
> rather the shell.

About 18 years ago as a relative unix newbie of 2 years I typed
[some command or another involving foo]
cat foo

and got

foo: file not found

but ls showed the file was there; this drove me crazy until, after
complaining to some passing guru that "the system's broken!" he took
enough pity to come over to my terminal and type
od -c foo

which produced

0000000   f   o   o   :       n   o   t       f   o   u   n   d  \n
0000017

Welcome to the club!

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