On Saturday 30 March 2002 06:52 pm, civileme wrote:
> Gerald Waugh wrote:
> >I have a directory       fsn1date +%Y%m%d/
> >It was a bad attempt to create a directory with a date
> >
> >I can't remove it.
> >
> >rm -rf fsn1date +%Y%m%d
> >
> >does nothing
>
> Try escaping the space and other special characters with a \
>
> Civileme

Thanks I got it with
rm -rf fsn1date\ \+%Y%m%d/

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