On Monday 29 August 2005 01:32 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
| magnet wrote:
| > Hi, managed to download some rogue files by mistake using p2p and now I
| > cannot delete them. No matter what I do they appear listed as present
| > in konqueror or konsole window.
| >
| > Files all start with ":123 filename.gif".
| >
| > I have tried rm and shred but the shell complains it cannot lstat the
| > file and "No such file or directory"
| > ls -a returns a list of these 3 files in the directory.
| >
| > Can anyone help me delete these files please?
| >
| > regards
| > magnet
|
| The problem, as you have discovered by now, is the : at the start of the
| file name, and the space in the file name. You can put quotes around
| them, and others have stated. Or you can escape the : by using \:
| instead of : - you can escape the space the same way. This allows things
| like rm \:123\ *.gif to match all the strange .gif files... You can
| check what would be matched by using ls instead of rm.
|
| Mikkel
I forgot all about regular expressions. I suppose do not use them enough,
although I do use them in my procmailrc file ...
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