Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 18:13:40 +0100 From: Matthias Paul Subject: Re: File Names with Spaces To: opendos-support AT delorie DOT com Reply-to: Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de Message-id: Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen Precedence: bulk On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 Travis Siegel wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Gene Kwatny wrote: > > > Can anyone suggest a straightforward method to delete files whose names > > have embedded spaces in DOS with no long file name support (i.e standard > > 8.3 notation). > > Yep, sure can. Assuming the file is something like "1 2 3" then to delete > it, all you need to do is something like; > del 1?2?3 > Just place a question mark where the spaces are, and it'll happ9ily > disappear. :) Hope this helps. BTW, if you happen to find a 8.3 directory with spaces in the name, e.g. c:\1 2 3\ just use DR-DOS' COMMAND.COM RMDIR/RD command - you won't need LFN support to be loaded for this: RD 1 2 3 Some other shells support it as well, if you put the name in quotes, like RD "c:\1 2 3" or for files: DEL "1 2 3" Matthias -------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, GERMANY eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Caldera Digital Research Systems/OpenLinux: http://www.caldera.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------