I am trying to get rid of this folder, but the result is saying that fish expects a variable name after this $. What does it mean ? And how do i get rid of this folder ?

OrangePumkin@piefed.nl · 2 months ago

I am trying to get rid of this folder, but the result is saying that fish expects a variable name after this $. What does it mean ? And how do i get rid of this folder ?

Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 2 months ago

Would it help to use ls --literal --show-control-chars to find out if \003 is indeed the representation of a special character?

sjohannes@programming.dev · edit-2 2 months ago

The default output itself is pretty definitive, assuming you are indeed using GNU ls and don’t have the QUOTING_STYLE environment variable set. https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Formatting-the-file-names.html explains all this (including your options) and more.

$ touch $'folder\x03'
$ ls --quoting-style shell-escape  # the default
'folder'$'\003'
$ ls --quoting-style c
"folder\003"
$ ls --quoting-style escape
folder\003