get rid of files and directories with spaces in them

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Jul 21 06:45:46 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 22:45 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> When all else fails, wildcards can be your friends.

See what you get with ls rather than rm, first, if you're using
wildcards.  You don't want to delete more than you expect to.

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