Can't Remove Directory?

[Drew Lane]

Nope.  That didn't work either:  "No such file or directory".

BTW, probably would be better to rename this directory
if possible rather than delete it since it has user files in it.
(I tried "mv 43480\\ 43480" and "rmdir 43480\\")

Drew



Jerry S. wrote:

>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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