Re: Deleting an archive

[Mark Moeller <yugrotavele@archlinux.us>]

Colin Percival <cperciva@...> writes:

> Try running
> # tarsnap --list-archives | hexdump -C
> so that you can see exactly what the archive name is (e.g., if there's any
> trailing whitespace).  If you can specify the right name to tarsnap -d it
> should delete just fine -- tarsnap doesn't try to do anything "smart" with
> archive names which would get confused by a backslash.
> 
> You'll also want to make sure that your shell isn't interpreting the backslash
> the wrong way, too.  You might need to 'quote' the archive name...
> 
Running the hexdump command showed me the same archive name. Deleting the
archive 'quoted' did work. Thanks.