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Command for deleting Windows junk files from a directory?
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I'm moving a few thousand images file off a Windows 2000 system onto a Mac. When opened in Finder, I see three files for each image:
image.jpg
image.jpg:?Q301sldxJoudresxAaaqpcawXc:$DATA
image.jpg:{4c8cc155-6c1e-11d1-8e41-00c04fb9386d}:$DATA
(the strings after the imagename.jpg: appear to be identical for every image)
I'm assuming that the additional two files are something to do with Window's file permissions (or something). I don't need them.
Going into a Finder window to delete them is painfully slow, so how do I delete them in Terminal?
Doing a
"rm *:$DATA"
just returns
"DATA: undefined variable".
10.2.8 running tcsh. Relative Terminal newbie.
Thanks guys.
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Try
rm *:\$DATA
(note backslash).
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Originally posted by Sherwin:
Doing a
"rm *:$DATA"
just returns
"DATA: undefined variable".
Ahh, the command you issued is telling the shell to look for a variable called "DATA" (the dollar sign tells the shell that whatever follows is the name of a variable), and since you don't have one, it errors. You can either use single quotes or escape the dollar sign like Wevah suggested above. As a general rule, double quotes are really only good for escaping simple characters like spaces.
I'm not sure of the specifics of single and double quotes and their strictness, but single quotes are pretty good for escaping mostly everything.
(Last edited by [APi]TheMan; Jan 24, 2005 at 10:20 PM.
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I'm not sure of the specifics of single and double quotes and their strictness, but single quotes are pretty good for escaping mostly everything.
As I understand it single and double quotes are basically the same only the double (partial) quotes expand variable names and allow for certain escape characters ( $, ` (backquote), and \ (backslash)). single (full) quotes give you EXACTLY what is between the quotes. ie.
Code:
> echo "$TERM"
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and with single quotes
Code:
> echo '$TERM'
$TERM
more info @ http://www.tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/quoting.html
(Last edited by leira; Jan 25, 2005 at 12:22 AM.
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Originally posted by Wevah:
Try
rm *: \$DATA
(note backslash).
This worked - thanks!
Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
You can either use single quotes or escape the dollar sign like Wevah suggested above. As a general rule, double quotes are really only good for escaping simple characters like spaces.
Possible to use wildcards within those quotes or does it just escape the * too?
(edit: sorry, leira has just answered this!)
Thanks for the help guys. 
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