▲ 0 ▼ 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 ? (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 months ago by OrangePumkin@piefed.nl to c/techsupport@lemmy.world 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] OrangePumkin@piefed.nl [S] 0 points 3 months ago (1 child) Didn't work. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 months ago I'm unfamiliar with fish but that $'\003' also looks a lot like how bash escapes unprintable control characters (ASCII 3 is 'end of text' apparently). You probably have sh or bash available. Try the same command in that. sh -c "rm -rf 'folder'$'\003'" Or just delete all directories that start with folder with confirmation (no -f): rm -r folder* permalink fedilink source parent
[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 months ago I'm unfamiliar with fish but that $'\003' also looks a lot like how bash escapes unprintable control characters (ASCII 3 is 'end of text' apparently). You probably have sh or bash available. Try the same command in that. sh -c "rm -rf 'folder'$'\003'" Or just delete all directories that start with folder with confirmation (no -f): rm -r folder* permalink fedilink source parent
