On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Brian McCann wrote:

> I've got an interesting question for you all.  I've got a file who's
> name is "   "...3 blank spaces.  It shows up when I do an ls -la, and I
> can get it's inode # (it's in RedHat...a box I'm going to convert to
> FreeBSD real soon)...does anyone know how to remove a file based off of
> an inode #?
>
> --Brian McCann

Have you tried rm "   " ?

I've just tried it on my box

bash-2.05# touch "   "
bash-2.05# ls -ld "   "
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Oct 13 13:13
bash-2.05# rm "   "
bash-2.05# ls -ld "   "
ls:    : No such file or directory



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