Good points! As one additional thing to consider, I just remembered that the ftp protocol don't really expect to deal with wildcards. mget and friends actually do a DIR, and then applies the command to every file listed by the initial DIR. I can't remember if any real wildcarding is allowed at all in ftp. I should know once I've implemented my ftp for RSX. (It's probably a couple of weeks away.) Johnny On 2011-10-21 18.31, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: In ftp, there are separate commands for wildcard operation -- for example "mget" instead of "get" and "mdelete" instead of "rm". That probably accounts for both issues. It may also be that ; gives trouble because it's a Unix shell character. If so, you could use the TOPS-20 style version delimiter "." -- that works on VMS also. paul -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 12:05 PM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Wildcards using MULTINET FTP server, Linux client? On 2011-10-21 17.18, Sampsa Laine wrote: I'm trying to do a rm *.*;* in an FTP script and get this error: 550-Failed to delete directory DKA0:[ARCSIGHT]*^.log^;*.dir; 550 The file specification must contain a name, type and version number (even if wildcarded). How do I get rid of those stupid ^'s? I'd be more worried about where the ".dir;" at the end comes from...? Johnny