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On Wed, 14 May 2003, adrian kok wrote:

>
> But the second one that I can't delete it

> > rm "(.)_Final Pro 3(System ID file).dmg"
>
> no such file or directory!
>

Let us see again...

You have created files whose names have characters that have a special
meaning for the shell: (, ), and whitespace.  In this case you have
to make an escape sequence to reference them.  This is made using
"\" before the special character.

Try this:

	rm \(.\)_Final\ Pro\ 3\(System\ ID\ file\).dmg

now, if this file is the only one ending in ".dmg"  you can try:

	rm *.dmg