[vox-tech] Removing Files

[Daniel Hurt]

Ryan wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 May 2004 11:26 pm, Daniel Hurt dwhurt-at-ucdavis.edu |lugod| 
> wrote:
> 
>>>I have a question regarding deletion of files.  In the conversion of my
>>>files from my windows to Linux, I had some files that had special
>>>characters in them.  They copied to the Linux file system, but now I
>>>cannot access them to modify them.  I was curious about how to go about
>>>removing these files:
>>>
>>>ls: ./Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director´s Cut).avi: No such file
>>>or directory
> 
> rm 'Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director´s Cut).avi'
> would work. so would
> rm 'Evil\ Dead\ 3\ -\ Army\ of\ Darkness\ Director\´s\ Cut\).avi
> 
> But quoting is usualy easier. Or use tab-compleation... that will escape for 
> you.

Thanks I tried that already :-)  But still not working.  Here are some 
examples of the commands that I tried.  I even tried installing a GUI 
file browser to see if it could see the files but no luck there.

--- Tab Completion:
$ rm Evil\ Dead\ 3\ -\ Army\ of\ Darkness\ \(Director´s\ Cut\).avi
rm: cannot remove `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director\264s 
Cut).avi': No such file or directory

--- Different Quote Tests:
$ rm 'Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director`s Cut).avi'
rm: cannot remove `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director`s Cut).avi': 
No such file or directory

$ rm "Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director's Cut).avi"
rm: cannot remove `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director\'s 
Cut).avi': No such file or directory

$ rm "Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director´s Cut).avi"
rm: cannot remove `Evil Dead 3 - Army of Darkness (Director\264s 
Cut).avi': No such file or directory


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