Re: [aclug-L] rmdir question

["Maverick, Ven-Han Ieong" <vhieong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, thank you so mcuh, I play around it using 
mkdir -- " -p : : "
to create a direcotry show like
drwxrwxr-x   2 vxieong  vxieong      1024 Mar 25 16:15  -p : : 

now I know I need to use
ls -lQ to check know that it is 
drwxrwxr-x   2 vxieong  vxieong      1024 Mar 25 16:15 "\ -p\ :\ :\ "

so I use 
rmdir -- "./ -p : : "/
to remove it. Thank you so much and John 's trick.

                                                Ieong

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Jeff wrote:

->On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Maverick, Ven-Han Ieong wrote:
->
->> it works!
->
->Yay!
->
->> Just for my knowledge, how do you know the directory name is contain space 
or
->> not? Thanks
->
->If your shell has filename expansion, and the filename doesn't start with
->anything crazy, you can do:
->
->$ more f[TAB]
->
->and the shell will put quotes around it for you.
->
->You can also do 'ls -lQ' or 'ls -lb'.
->
->John's trick is a good one to remember, too.
->
->-jeff
->
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