Removing Troublesome Files

• Removing Files with a space in them - for example remove the file called Classification Scheme.to

  Put single quotes round the filename to hide the space from the shell, you could escape the space withg \ if you prefer. For files which begin with odd characters you may also want to start with ./ to prevent them being treated specially (esp the - char!).

  e.g.
  
   rm -i 'Classification scheme.do'
  
  or
  
   rm -i Classification\ scheme.do
  

  You may find that your shell will auto-complete to one of these if you start typing the name and hit TAB.

• No such file or directory

  I have a file called .saves-28994-declaim.amt that I would like to delete. I tried rm -i '.saves-28994-declaim.amt'
  rm: cannot remove .saves-28994-declaim.amt: No such file or directory
  but as you can see I failed.

  The name seems to have been truncated for you. Press tab to ask the shell to auto-complete the filename for you.

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