Deleting an AIX File which has space and & in name

[jahirs]

Hi,

I ftp'd some data files from Win to AIX, which has & and space in the file name.
How can I delete/open those files.

Thanks in Advance.

Jaheer

 

[MoshiachNow]

HI,

1.you can use tcsh ,start the file name ,use <tab> to let the system to complete the name

or

2.cat file\ space\ name
&quot;\&quot; will tell the syetm to use space as part of the name

or

3.cat 'file space name'

3.

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[mjldba]

You can delete these files with imbedded spaces and/or special characters by using rm -i * carefully.

You be prompted remove <filename> ? and you simply answer o until you get to the file(s) that you want to delete.

Cumbersome if there are many files to get through to get to your problem file(s) but it's a simple solution to your problem.

 

[jahirs]

Thanks guys.

rm -i *pattern* worked.

Very much thanks

 

[sbix]

I tried to create a file named &quot;& goofy&quot; by issuing the command &quot;echo a > \&\ goofy&quot; and it worked well
Then i tried to remove it by issuing &quot;rm \&\ goofy&quot; and it worked fine too
The problem is in the special-character interpretation which can be avoided by quoting the special character

 

[marleyg]

I had a file that looked like:
{print }
I don't know how it got there, and I couldn't delete it. After reading this thread I tried:
rm -i *print*
which worked as advertised.

 

[MoshiachNow]

rm -i '{print }'

would also work.

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