Can't Remove Directory?

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

It's not "extra characters," but a single extra character: a trailing
space. That's what you should check your code for.

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:09:34 -0500, Drew Lane wrote:

> Good trick.  I was able to rename it.
> 
> The whole filename was "43480\ /"
> 
> I guess the * wildcard would have worked too - forgot about that.
> 
> Now I have to figure out where the heck those extra characters are
> coming from.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Drew
> 
> mascarasnake wrote:
> 
>> 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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