Question

I need to delete old files with special characters in filenames like space,,,(,),! and so on via PHP. Classic unlink($filename) does not work for these files. How can I transform filenames to filenames which accepts unlink function and filesystem? It’s running on a Solaris machine and I don’t have another access to it.

Answer 1

How are you constructing the $filename? unlink should work on any filename with special characters if you do the normal escaping on it. e.g.

for a file with a name of this has, various/wonky !characters in it, then

 $filename = 'this has\, various\/wonky \!characters in it';
 unlink($filename);

should work.