From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 19 2:15: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AC837B408 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 02:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-a067.otenet.gr [212.205.215.67]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f9J9EoO24587; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 12:14:50 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f9J7jho17224; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:45:43 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from charon@labs.gr) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 10:45:42 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: ravi pina Cc: Georgi Tyuliev , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 77M ./var/ftp/incoming/ com2/tagged 4 Lhotse by Xplosivo/filled by okunawa/tc2 Message-ID: <20011019104542.A16987@hades.hell.gr> References: <3BCF2AB3.CB8F4D56@e20.physik.tu-muenchen.de> <20011018152915.Q3456@happy.cow.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011018152915.Q3456@happy.cow.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: C1EB 0653 DB8B A557 3829 00F9 D60F 941A 3186 03B6 X-URL: http://labs.gr/~charon/ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ravi pina wrote: > > the quickest way to get rid of the files is to > run a shell with file-name completion as root. my > shell of choice is tcsh. since it looks like > there are only spaces prepending, just do: > > rm -r /var/ftp/incoming/\ * Or even the simpler: rm -fr /var/ftp/incoming which will require no special treatment of characters that are funny. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message