Can't Remove Directory?

[Jerry S.]

Hello Yellow,

  rmdir 43480\\
  should do the trick for you.  You will have to "escape" the "\".

  jer

Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 10:30:08 AM, you wrote:


>>Drew, use "ls -q" and dollars to donuts you'll see a special character in
>>the filename. You can also use "find . -ls" in the above directory and it
>>will show you the filename.
>>
DL> Looks like you're on the right track.

DL> "ls -q" didn't show anything special, but "find . -ls" shows this:

DL> 476116   4   drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   Oct   4   23:07
DL> ./43480\

DL> Note the \ charachter at the end of the directory.

DL> None of the other directories have this.

DL> How do i get rid of this?  I tried mv 43480\ 43480 but it didn't work.

DL> Thanks,

DL> Drew




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 Jerry

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