Deleting an archive with an space

[Arturo Galbiati]

Hi,
try rm -i *command*txt and confirm when asked.
probably rm log* doesn't run because the separator is not a speca but a non printable chars.
HTH,
Art

[Stephen Keane]

If my recommendation didn't work, then you don;t have spaces between the words making up the file name.

try the following to see non-printtable characters ...

# ll | cat -v

you can match each non-printable character with a '?'

[Manuales]

Hi ..!!!
i can't delete the file !!!

the name of the file is: "-sh proceso.log"

how can i do it??

please help !!!

Thanks !!!

[Tom Danzig]

rm -- "-sh proceso.log"

[Jeff_Traigle]

Or by per the example in the rm man page:

rm "./-sh proceso.log"

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Manuales:

Once again, the method I posted is generally applicable to files with *any* special characters. This includes files beginning with "-".

You can also do:

# touch /tmp/-
# cd /tmp
# rm -- -

The "--" syntax says that there are no more switches to a command and what follows is an argument; in this case a filename.

By the way, in my earlies posts, above, I dropped the hyphen form 'xdev'. The 'find' should read:

# find . -xdev -name "bad*" -exec ls -li {} \

Regards!

...JRF...

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Manuales:

Once again, the method I posted is generally applicable to files with *any* special characters. This includes files beginning with "-".

You can also do:

# touch /tmp/-
# cd /tmp
# rm -- -

The "--" syntax says that there are no more switches to a command and what follows is an argument; in this case a filename.

By the way, in my earlies posts, above, I dropped the hyphen form 'name'. The 'find' should read:

# find . -xdev -name "bad*" -exec ls -li {} \

Regards!

...JRF...

[Manuales]

Thanks all friends !!!

it was worked with:
rm -- "-sh proceso.log"

Thanks !!!
Manuales.

[Manuales]

Hi Sanjay, thanks for link
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=953425

and Geoff Wild, thanks for link http://www.sas.upenn.edu/computing/help/Unix/special_char.html

Thanks, is very interesting this site !!!

:0D
Manuales.