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  3. February 2008

Re: Unable to delete file from IFS

MKirkpatrick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
When I try to delete others like
\\QNTC\WDSERVER2\FLASH\ORTHOFLASH\\flash_test.xls (Note the double
slash
at the beginning) it gives me an error:
rm: 001-2103 Error found getting information for file or directory
\QNTC\WDSERVER2\FLASH\ORTHOFLASH\flash_test.xls. No such file or
directory. (Notice the name, single slash at the beginning)

It seems that it is actually looking for the file in the
\QNTC\WDSERVER2\FLASH\ORTHOFLASH directory. But it is not there. Any
ideas?

UNIX shells (including Qshell) interpret a single backslash as an escape
character. If you "double up" the backslash characters the shell will
interpret each "double backslash" as a single backslash. In other words,
try something like this in Qshell:
rm \\\\QNTC\\WDSERVER2\\FLASH\\ORTHOFLASH\\\\flash_test.xls

A bit of a longer answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character




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