unable to delete a folder

[djoverho]

Hi, one of our clients has a couple folders on his site that he is unable to delete. I logged in as root and went to his home directory and can see the files, the 2 he wants deleted look different than the others in that they look like this

foldername\r/

the rest of them just look like this:

foldername/

When I try to delete them I get:

550 No Such File or Directory

any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

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[AP]

did you use rm -rf foldername command?

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[djoverho]

yeah, I also tried renaming it, changing the attributes...nothing seems to work...any idea what the \r/ means? thanks

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[rbmatt]

Try:
rm -fr 'foldername\r'
The \r is like a \n
I think when you use the rm command without quotes, it actually translates the \r
I'm guessing this directory was made with a php/cgi script?

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[djoverho]

that didnt seem to work either...didnt get any errors but its still showing when I do ls I don't know what they were created with...any other ideas?

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[Nico]

I have had the same problem in the past. This is how I resolved it:

Say the folder name is: test\1/

I ran this: rm -rf tes*

As long as there or no other files that start with 'test' you should be OK.

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[rbmatt]

Try:
rm -fr foldername\\r
rm -fr 'foldername\\r'

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[djoverho]

Nico....that worked ) Thanks a million, I'll have to remember that one. Thanks again.

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