Oh hey, seeing that has just given me another idea (not sure if anyone else mentioned this yet elsewhere further down in the conversation… but…)
Tried just using a unique portion of the name that’s easy to type, along with asterisks for the rest? e.g. rmdir *old*00* (or rm -r if it’s not an empty dir you want rid of).
Are the
hyphensapostrophes and the backslash part of the folder name too?If so, try
\'folder\'\$\'\\003\'escaping thehyphensapostrophes', the dollar sign$and the backslash\.Do you see the folder with the strange name here ?
Oh hey, seeing that has just given me another idea (not sure if anyone else mentioned this yet elsewhere further down in the conversation… but…)
Tried just using a unique portion of the name that’s easy to type, along with asterisks for the rest? e.g.
rmdir *old*00*(or rm -r if it’s not an empty dir you want rid of).As the other commenters and I have mentioned, you should try escaping any of the special characters
',$, and\by a backslash, i.e.\',\$and\\rm -rf command ?
rm -rf \'folder\'\$\'\\003\'There are no hyphens.
sorry, I mean apostrophes.
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