magnet wrote: > Hi, managed to download some rogue files by mistake using p2p and now I > cannot > delete them. No matter what I do they appear listed as present in konqueror > or konsole window. > > Files all start with ":123 filename.gif". > > I have tried rm and shred but the shell complains it cannot lstat the file > and > "No such file or directory" > ls -a returns a list of these 3 files in the directory. > > Can anyone help me delete these files please? > > regards > magnet > The problem, as you have discovered by now, is the : at the start of the file name, and the space in the file name. You can put quotes around them, and others have stated. Or you can escape the : by using \: instead of : - you can escape the space the same way. This allows things like rm \:123\ *.gif to match all the strange .gif files... You can check what would be matched by using ls instead of rm.
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