From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 7 0:19:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iserver.itworks.com.au (iserver.itworks.com.au [203.32.61.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D399437B8BB for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:19:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rgrace@itworks.com.au) Received: (qmail 48399 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2000 07:19:17 -0000 Received: from maybe.itworks.com.au (203.36.209.235) by iserver.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 7 Apr 2000 07:19:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 66150 invoked from network); 7 Apr 2000 07:19:17 -0000 Received: from dhcp8.itworks.com.au (HELO paranoia) (203.36.209.217) by maybe.itworks.com.au with SMTP; 7 Apr 2000 07:19:17 -0000 From: "Richard Grace" To: "Lanny Baron" , "JMS Internet" Cc: , Subject: RE: unable to delete a file Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:19:50 +1000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Have you tried to install tkdesk? (it's in /usr/ports/x11-fm). > I have had the same thing happen. In text mode (non Xwindows) you > have to put > either " or ' to the beginning and end of the file. Like > rm 'Start Menu' or rm "Start Menu" > > with a program like tkdesk, the file shows up in a file manager > box and you > hightlight and delete. > > lnb > > > On 07-Apr-00 JMS Internet wrote: > Someone has logged into my system via anonymous FTP and uploaded a > directory or file of a large size which I can not seem to delete > either via > FTP or telnet. The complete name as listed by 'du' is: > /users/ftp/incoming/ .x /for JUSTiSO/by KradLrobR/ (file of > some type > here) > When I try to cd to this directory I get: > cd: Too many arguments. Wildcards are your friends, try also the -i argument to rm. eg, $ cd /users/ftp/incoming/*.x*/for*/by* $ rm -i * Then answer 'y' or 'n' to any of the files. This will allow you to delete files which may have special charaters in their names as well. Richard Grace. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message