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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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[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 days ago

‘folder’$‘\003’

Oh that is unpleasantly fiddly to insert all the backslashes to escape the bits. Testing here, (fiddly to even make a dir called that, lol), for fun, instead of just pressing tab, ... is it just the $ and the \ you need to escape? and the ' are fine? Results here are inconclusive, not sure I managed to make a file with the same name, it showing here with extra outer '.

Probably easier to just interactively.... but yeah, in case needing to have it written for a script... probably easiest still to just press tab, to see how it arranges the escape syntax, and paste that into your script. ;)

The fi in fish is friendly interactive, after all.