RE: Deleting stream files with slashes in the name

["York, Albert" <albert.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks James. 

That worked like a charm.

Albert York                          


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   James Rich [SMTP:james@xxxxxxxxxxx]
        Sent:   Wednesday, April 02, 2003 4:46 PM
        To:     Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
        Subject:        Re: Deleting stream files with slashes in the name

        On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, York, Albert wrote:

        > We have some stream files on the AS/400 that got created with
slashes in the
        > name. Now we can't delete or rename them. WRKLNK shows the file
but when I
        > select option 4 it says it can't find the file.
        >
        > Is there any way to get rid of them?

        Substitute '?' for '/':

        rm this?file?name?sucks

        James Rich
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