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Two files in the same directory with the exact same name?! #
What's up with this?
Let's find out: ls | od -a reveals:
Doh! Missed that space after the filename extension. (Thanks to Mssrs. Edgar Holmann & Tom Ivar Helbekkmo who posted to this thread back in 1990.)
UPDATE: See also Zhitao Zhou's Can we believe our eyes? which examines two "hosts" files in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc caused by malware replacing "o" (Unicode 0x006F) with a nearly identical Cyrillic character (Unicode 0x043E).
/nix | Jul 14, 2006
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