get rid of files and directories with spaces in them
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Sat Jul 21 02:45:22 UTC 2007
Scott Berry wrote:
> How does one get rid of files and directories with spaces in them? I
> tried rm and it doesn't want to remove the files or folders?
Quoting names with spaces works well. So does use of the \ character to
escape the space. Exact usage might vary depending on which shell
you're using.
The following examples should work well with bash:
rm "filename with spaces"
rm another\ file\ with\ spaces
When all else fails, wildcards can be your friends.
> Scott
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