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[–] 6 points 3 months ago*

Yep as others have noted put a \ in front of each special character. The \ tells the system to treat the following character as a alphanumeric character in the string and not as a operator or a command. Since ', $ and \ are all special characters you will need a \ just before each when typing this name. Also as mentioned do this with a benign command like ls first to make sure your only acting on that specific directory or you might have a bad day.

Edit: How the heck did you get some of those folder names? Looks like a script with incorrect variable/macro substitution made these.

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