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Vijay
Asked: 2010-12-25 03:02:25 +0800 CST

Not able to delete file from the server?

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I've a file called piture-list.php in my website.

When I see them through the ftp client it shows two files with different filesizes.

as 

File name          filesize
picture-list.php   19818
picture-list.php   9063

When I select the file with filesize 9063 and delete using ftp, it deletes the file with the filesize 19818.

Then I used the command prompt to list files and happened to see actually there were two files one with the original name and other with a space before the filename (" picture-list.php").

I tried to move, delete the file but nothing is successful..

What may be the issue?

filesystems

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To interact with the file containing a leading space you will need to put a quotes around the file name e.g.

    rm " picture-list.php"

    You can also use the -i command line switch e.g.

    rm -i *pict*
rm: remove regular file ` picture-list.php'?

    and answer y to remove the one with the leading space.

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