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<         remote_dir = urllib.unquote(self.parsed_url.path.lstrip('/')).rstrip()
<         commandline = "lftp -c 'source %s;cd \'%s\';rm %s'" % (self.tempname, remote_dir, filelist.rstrip())
<         self.popen_persist(commandline)
---
>         if filelist.rstrip() : # don't even try to remove empty names --jno
>           remote_dir = urllib.unquote(self.parsed_url.path.lstrip('/')).rstrip()
>           commandline = "lftp -c 'source %s;cd \'%s\';rm %s'" % (self.tempname, remote_dir, filelist.rstrip())
>           self.popen_persist(commandline)