Oh well, life sucks. On 21 Sep 2011, at 19:25, Marc Chametzky wrote: How do I do a DELETE *.*;* over FTP? The stupid client or server keeps sticking ^ chars in the filename so it breaks. I tried DISABLE PARSE, no luck. FTP doesn't support wildcards for the DELE command. You'd need to use a command that supports getting a directory listing first and then using that to send multiple deletes. I think that command in FTP is "mdel". --Marc