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sophisticated command line file transfer program (ftp, http, sftp, fish, torrent)
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Delete files with special characters - Access failed: 550 #624

Open forofo opened 3 years ago

forofo commented 3 years ago

trying to delete files with some special characters

lftp myhost@ftpbackup:/> ls  home/dir1/dir2/
-rw-------    1 100        ftpgroup      2949015 Feb 21  2012 home/dir1/dir2/visit_l\'earth.jpg

lftp myhost@ftpbackup:/> rm home/dir1/dir2/visit_l\'earth.jpg
rm: Access failed: 550 Could not delete home/dir1/dir2/visit_l'earth.jpg: No such file or directory

lftp myhost@ftpbackup:/> mv home/dir1/dir2/visit_l\'earth.jpg home/dir1/dir2/newname.jpg
mv: Access failed: 550 Sorry, but that file doesn't exist (home/dir1/dir2/visit_l'earth.jpg)

note the file was written with \ (visit_l\'earth.jpg) and lftp cannot see it when return the result

rm home/dir1/dir2/visit*.jpg also fails

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