chown for directories with . and space

Hello All:

I've been looking everywhere and can't find a solution. Our helpdesk has set
up some accounts using names like First Name or First.Name but these
directories are causing system problems becuase they are UID and GID 0. I'm
trying to do a chown firstname:lastname but the shell only interputs what's
before the space or period. Is there some syntax which will allow me to chown
or del these directories?

Thanks for any help or suggestions.

Darryl

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:12:33 GMT, Darryl Bach wrote:
> Hello All:
>
> I've been looking everywhere and can't find a solution. Our helpdesk has set
> up some accounts using names like First Name or First.Name but these
> directories are causing system problems becuase they are UID and GID 0. I'm
> trying to do a chown firstname:lastname but the shell only interputs what's
> before the space or period. Is there some syntax which will allow me to chown
> or del these directories?

Try putting quotes around them, rm "/home/Darryl Bach"
Or apostrophes rm '/home/Darryl Bach'