From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: File without a name appears in a dired buffer Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:45:14 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465311404 4083 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2016 14:56:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 14:56:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 07 16:56:40 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bAIQq-0000dw-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:56:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50662 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAIQp-0002Zh-Ja for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:56:39 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!137.226.75.22.MISMATCH!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="1378"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19t+lttqLPTz2BtkELlyfJp" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:PBT/TPz4YEo9mfBQFdPoRmSLwtg= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218051 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110360 Archived-At: In article , Davin Pearson wrote: > Here is a pasting of my ABBA folder. Note the spurious line at the top of > the file. In other dired buffers more than one of these lines appears. The > command > > rm "" > > doesn't remove the file, instead it complains about a non-existent file: `' > no such file or directory. It's a directory, not a file. And the name is probably some number of spaces. Use mv " "* bettername to rename it. > > c:/Downloads/ABBA Discography [24 96]: > total used in directory 1 available 57327936 > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 05-19 06:52 <--- here > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 05-19 06:52 . > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 06-07 06:38 .. > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 06-02 03:00 1973 Ring Ring > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-22 1974 Waterloo > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-22 1975 ABBA > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-22 1976 All About > ABBA > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-22 1976 Arrival > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-22 1977 The Album > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-22 1979 > Voulez-Vous > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-22 1980 Super > Trouper > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-22 1981 The > Visitors > drwxrwxrwx 1 Administrators Administrators 0 2015-11-19 Pictures > -rw-rw-rw- 1 Davin Pearson None 359 06-02 03:02 a.wav -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***