[thelist] Deleting a file through FTP connection

[Hassan Schroeder]

Cancilla Dominick wrote:

> and posted a couple of files with spaces at the beginning of their names (he
> thought this would help people who downloaded the files as it would keep
> them at the top of a file list). He can't delete the files with GoLive (and
> I'm unfamiliar with that software), and both Fetch and Dreamweaver are
> unable to delete the files, I'm assuming because of the spaces.

command-line ftp works fine with the file name quoted, as in:

ftp> del " foobar"

HTH!
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