Re: Unable to delete file from IFS

["Walt Madden" <walterross@xxxxxxxxx>]

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