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It's just not escaped properly.
You can probably just get away with putting a backslash \ before the $ so it looks like \$.
Didn't work.
I'm unfamiliar with fish but that $'\003' also looks a lot like how bash escapes unprintable control characters (ASCII 3 is 'end of text' apparently).
You probably have sh or bash available. Try the same command in that.
sh -c "rm -rf 'folder'$'\003'"
Or just delete all directories that start with folder with confirmation (no -f):
rm -r folder*
The quotes and escapes are mangled.
cd into the directory with the folder to remove, type rm -rf ./ then press tab until the folder you’re looking for is autocompleted after the ./
Doesn't seem to work.
If you’re struggling, might as well either open a file manager like midnight commander to make your life easier.
What's that ?
a file manager
Google.
Just type rm -rf f and use tab to auto complete.
Are you sure the name is 'folder'$'\003'? I think the outer quotes might be added by ls. I would try rm -rf 'folder\'\$\'\\003'
Edit: Or rm -rf 'folder\'$\'\\003'
You probably don't own the folder. Use sudo.
Meaning ??
It's right here.
Oh. Sudo is the special word meaning admin. So if you have a command like rm and it fails due to permissions you simply add sudo. sudo rm. But I see that your problem is the folder name. So nevermind. Maybe look at the spaces? Maybe you have tab$tab instead of space$space?
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