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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 ? (objectstorage.eu-amsterdam-1.oraclecloud.com)

submitted 2 days ago by OrangePumkin@piefed.nl to c/linux4noobs@programming.dev

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[–] OrangePumkin@piefed.nl 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

[–] OrangePumkin@piefed.nl 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Do you see the folder with the strange name here ?

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 2 points 2 days ago

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).

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As the other commenters and I have mentioned, you should try escaping any of the special characters ', $, and \ by a backslash, i.e. \', \$ and \\

[–] OrangePumkin@piefed.nl 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

rm -rf command ?

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

rm -rf \'folder\'\$\'\\003\'