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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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[–] 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*
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