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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 ? (thelemmy.club)
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[–] [S] 0 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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  • [–] [S] 0 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Do you see the folder with the strange name here ?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months 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).

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 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 \\

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