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The $ is unquoted and so it's interpreted as a if variable name will follow. That does not happen (a literal string follows the $) so it casts an error
You probably are looking for this : rm -r 'folder'$'003'
The slash will cause the shell or interpret the next character literally (as as $ and not as variable indicator)
You should wrap
rm -r 'folder'\$'003'in backticks, because in my Lemmy client the backwards slash wasn't showing.Here's the result :
You put an extra backslash in there, it should be
rm -r "folder'\$'003"After this, i gave the ls command, and it's showing up.
Did you try with bash autocomplete?
rm -r folder
And see how it spells it? Also you could wildcard depending on what you (don't) want to delete in the process.