Can't Remove Directory?

[mascarasnake]

Have you tried a tab compete? ala:
	sudo rm -r 434[TABtoCOMPLETEFILENAME]

just some pennies...

Drew Lane 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.
>>
> Looks like you're on the right track.
> 
> "ls -q" didn't show anything special, but "find . -ls" shows this:
> 
> 476116   4   drwxr-xr-x   2   root   root   4096   Oct   4   23:07   
> ./43480\
> 
> Note the \ charachter at the end of the directory.
> 
> None of the other directories have this.
> 
> How do i get rid of this?  I tried mv 43480\ 43480 but it didn't work.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Drew
> 
> 
> 
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