<SOLVED>os.system needs a string in quotes

[Skaperen]

You shall call it without [] when argument are in a list.
 

subprocess.call(cmd)

sorry about not checking that he was making a list in the call.  my habit is to make lists and do as you say and not have [] in the call.  i ended up jumping to conclude that he did,  my bad.

[Fred Barclay]

This works perfectly!

cmd = [ "srm", "-rv", path ]
subprocess.call(cmd)

I can even delete folders and files with really weird names like

/home/fred/Git/this "is" a test of (srm)

or

/home/fred/Git/who (am) "I" 'going' to be?

Yahoo!
Thanks guys! :dance:

[Ofnuts]

I can even delete folders and files with really weird names

Expected since they are passed directly to the command without being tinkered with by a shell.