I would like to delete some images from a folder, but these images contain brackets in them [ ] how can I delete just the one's with [ ] in the filename? Could be either windows -- batch or Linux bash...Either would do.

Thanks

Never Mind, I figured it out another way...But I'll take other replies

how did you solve the problem?

Windows batch

del *[*]*

Linux bash

rm *\[*\]*

Well since you're taking other replies, howabout: why don't you read the man pages or the help info for the linux command RM?? i mean it's pretty easy to remove anything you want, throwing in asterisks when you need em and generally being competent in using linux. why has someone let you run a linux server if you can't use the RM command? is there any logic in this? i'm sorry if i sound callous, i haven't had my whisky and soda yet, but i will. i will.

witnesstheday brings up some good points... callous, but good.
Naturally, anytime you use del or rm, you are going to want to be extremely careful. Reading the man pages is GREAT advice! I highly recommend using the -i switch, as in

rm -i *\[*\]*

Whereas I'm more an rm -f kind of person...

Occasionally, when deleting tonnes of things in folders of various sorts created by various userlevels, you get a prompt anyway, and rm -f gets it out the way.

Here for our new perl recruits is the relevant man page, to save the trouble...

The options are as follows:

-d Attempt to remove directories as well as other types of
files.

-f Attempt to remove the files without prompting for confirma-
tion, regardless of the file's permissions. If the file does
not exist, do not display a diagnostic message or modify the
exit status to reflect an error. The -f option overrides any
previous -i options.

-i Request confirmation before attempting to remove each file,
regardless of the file's permissions, or whether or not the
standard input device is a terminal. The -i option overrides
any previous -f options.

-P Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are
overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff,
then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.

-R Attempt to remove the file hierarchy rooted in each file
argument. The -R option implies the -d option. If the -i
option is specified, the user is prompted for confirmation
before each directory's contents are processed (as well as
before the attempt is made to remove the directory). If the
user does not respond affirmatively, the file hierarchy
rooted in that directory is skipped.

-r Equivalent to -R.

-v Be verbose when deleting files, showing them as they are
removed.

-W Attempt to undelete the named files. Currently, this option
can only be used to recover files covered by whiteouts.

People in big companies pay 1000s of pounds to learn to use rm -f, I've discovered. The man pages are free, but these guys... they need someone with a certificate to tell them what's in a man page. They pay 2k for it. What a world.

that -W option is very interesting. What's a whiteout, I wonder. Commandline file recovery. Nice. Put away that norton. They're the ones who make the viruses anyway, and we all knows it.

Apparently, it works on union mounts only. Erasing a file on a union mount doesn't actually delete it on the bottom layer. Instead it adds an entry saying, "this file isn't here." Because the original file is still on the bottom layer, erasing the whiteout entry in the union mount makes the file appear again.

You're right, it IS interesting.

That's a good thing to have. My research has led me here:
http://www.filesystems.org/project-unionfs.html

But I'm still far off from figuring out how to put it on my own systems.

My main one is redhat, and it's not on the list... maybe I can't have it on that system. My other is a really old macintosh (white semi-sphere type) with some old unix platform inside it.

From what I read, ubuntu is a good thing to embrace in these times, I guess. Maybe I'll get an empty box and ubuntu and play around.