rm: cannot remove `fil*.txt': No such file or directory

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Thu May 8 12:24:00 GMT 2008


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According to mirz on 5/8/2008 6:02 AM:
| sh-3.2$ rm fil*.txt
| rm: cannot remove `fil*.txt': No such file or directory
|
| When I used * with ls it works correct
| sh-3.2$ ls fil*
| file.txt

Why not 'rm fil*' - if ls can use it, then rm can too, because * is
expanded by the shell, and not by ls or rm.

In the meantime, you might want to try 'ls -Q fil*' - perhaps the reason
that 'fil*.txt' fails but 'fil*' works is that the suffix is not truly
'.txt' but something cruel like '.txt '.

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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