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FTP program that allows you to rename illegal filenames?
Hi guys,

I am in the middle of writing a php script, make a small error and I end up with a few filenames that contains illegal characters (such as %). The problem is, my webhost does not give me telnet access, therefore I cannot delete/rename/copy/move those files containing illegal characters unless I can do it via an FTP software.

Does anyone know which FTP software can do that for me?
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Hi guys,

I am in the middle of writing a php script, make a small error and I end up with a few filenames that contains illegal characters (such as %). The problem is, my webhost does not give me telnet access, therefore I cannot delete/rename/copy/move those files containing illegal characters unless I can do it via an FTP software.

Does anyone know which FTP software can do that for me?
FileZilla (Win32) or gFTP (*nix) might work...
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Hi codergeek42,

Thank you for the reply. I tried FileZilla, and it didn't work as well.
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Dang...


Have you tried deleting the files through PHP?
PHP Code:
 $illegal_file_name = '%$$98-!~;:'
unlink($illegal_file_name); 
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Dang...


Have you tried deleting the files through PHP?
PHP Code:
 $illegal_file_name = '%$$98-!~;:'
unlink($illegal_file_name); 
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Oh yes, it worked, so stupid why I didn't think of that~~ hehe.

Filenames that contained illegal characters, but without space, unlinking them worked like a charm. However, for filename that contains a space still does not unlink.

This is the filename by the way...
diary_archive_%40_%2500%3A%25Aug%3A%25th .dat
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