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Old May 31st, 2005, 03:06 PM
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Deleting a file
Hi

I need a tip to delete the file.

# uname -a
SunOS yakdev2 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-V240

This is the file to be deleted.

-rw-r--r-- 1 testuser sysadmin 758 Apr 19 15:06 Shortcut to top-3.6alpha10pre.tar.gz.lnk

# rm Shortcut to top-3.6alpha10pre.tar.gz.lnk
Shortcut: No such file or directory
to: No such file or directory
top-3.6alpha10pre.tar.gz.lnk: No such file or directory

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You've got a couple different options.
  • You can escape the spaces with a backlslash, like so:
    Code:
    # rm Shortcut\ to\ top-3.6alpha10pre.tar.gz.lnk
    or...
  • You can enclose the filename in quotes:
    Code:
    # rm "Shortcut to top-3.6alpha10pre.tar.gz.lnk"
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Hi codergeek42

Great. It worked like this.

bash-3.00$ rm "Shortcut to top-3.6alpha10pre.tar.gz.lnk"

Thanks for the help.
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Hi codergeek42

Great. It worked like this.

bash-3.00$ rm "Shortcut to top-3.6alpha10pre.tar.gz.lnk"

Thanks for the help.


Just to add...you can also delete using i-node (ls -i) to get I node then "find . -i# -exec rm|mv|whatever {};"
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