How to remove a directory with special characters in it??

[aarondwyer]

Hi

How can I remove a directory using SSH that is like this ...


w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035/



Aaron

 

[aapkapratik]

Hello,


If you are too sure about removing the folder with name

w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035/

Please use following command

# ll

This will List the information about the FILEs/FOLDERS in the current directory.

# rm -rf "w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035"

Make sure you use the double quotes like this "" at the beginning and end of the folder name you wish to remove.

Please be sure while using the command rm -rf as this will remove folder and all the files within the folder recursively and forcefully ( without asking for your permission )

 

[aarondwyer]

Thanks for your help.

Yes, I had tried that technique and it didn't work. The directory isn't budging.

Aaron

 

[kernow]

Thanks for your help.

Yes, I had tried that technique and it didn't work. The directory isn't budging.

Aaron

Try renaming the dir and then deleting it.

 

[aarondwyer]

Tried to rename it this is what I got.

mv "w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035" test
mv: cannot stat `w\\034g,\\260\\207(\\315\\361\\2340\\230\\035\\235\\030\\201\\035': No such file or directory

cd "w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035"
-bash: cd: w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035: No such file or directory

ls -la
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root      1024 Dec 16  2006 w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035/

Any ideas? This one has me beat.

I don't even know what's in there or how it got created.


Aaron

 

[kernow]

No such file or directory

its probably reading the quotes.
Remove the quotes and just do

mv w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035 test

 

[aarondwyer]

No go, still won't budge.

mv w\034g,\260\207(\315\361\2340\230\035\235\030\201\035 hello
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `('

Thanks
Aaron

 

[kernow]

Try this one, cd to the dir containing the crappy dir name, then:

rename -n 's/[;?|\\]//(g'  newname

The above should rename any dir with any of the special characters to newname

 

[aarondwyer]

Hi Kernow

Sorry but that doesn't even give me any error messages.

The command just runs and returns me to the prompt.

The directory is still there.

Any other ideas?

Aaron

 

[kernow]

Hmmm............... OK try it with the s switch:

rename -s 's/[;?|\\]//(g'  newname

 

[RobinT.]

You can try removing the dir(or file) knowing its inode number.

ls -il *

145197508 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 22 07:08 w\\034g,\\260\\207(\\315\\361\\2340\\230\\035\\235\\030\\201\\035/

find . -inum 145197508 -exec rm -rf {} \;

This should help. Please note that first field is the inode number from "ls -il *" command.