I need to write a script to delete files with spaces in the filename. Can anyone help me out? Thanks and Regards, Gopikrishna.V

surround the file name with double quotes: touch "file spaces" # create the file rm "file spaces" # remove the file

Hi Nails, If i'm finding the files using find command and pass them as arguments through pipe, will I be still able to remove the files ?? Thanks and Regards, Gopikrishna.V

Hi Gopal, I am not sure how u r using find to trace files with spaces.Can u give the code-snippet for the same? Anyway here is what u desire:- #<ur find command> -exec rm {} \; e.g. #find /urpath -name ".* .*" -exec rm {} \; OR #find /urpath -name ".* .*"|xargs -i rm {} The second one with xargs is faster than the 1 with exec. U can use xargs with -p option or instead of "-exec" use "-ok" if u want to be prompted before each delete operation. Hope u find it useful, Regards, Sujan