[Novalug] Messed up file title problem

[Ed James]

Charlie,

   I thought you meant get rid of the space.  To get rid of the file, my
same suggestion to use wildcarding works.  Try:

   rm Trial?1.odt

Ed James

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:55 AM,  <cmhowe at patriot.net> wrote:
>> On Saturday 20 March 2010 10:36:25 pm cmhowe at patriot.net wrote:
>>> > List,
>>> >
>>> > This doesn't really affect the problem I am wrestling with, but it is
>>> an
>>> > annoyance and I want to deal with it.
>>> >
>>> > I inadvertently put a space in any oo word processor file. It reads
>>> > Trial 1.odt. How do I get rid of it?
>>> >
>>> > Charlie
>>>
>>> List,
>>>
>>> More.
>>>
>>> Bb using chmod 7 *.odt and same *.pdf I am able to persuade common Linux
>>> commands that they are ordinary files, to be manipulated as I wish. But
>>> not if they have a space in their title. When I do
>>>
>>>   $rm Test 1.odt
>>>
>>> it comes back
>>>
>>>   rm: cannot remove 'Test 1.odt': no such file or directories
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>> Charlie
>>
>> $rm 'Test 1.odt'
>>
>> You need the quotes or the rm function is looking for two files called
>> 'Test'
>> and '1.odt' which don't exist.
>>
>> Dan
>>
> Dan,
>
> This is slightly different from what Nino suggested. Also no.
>
> Charlie
>
>
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