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How to remove a directory name with space and special charactors

Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2016 9:34 am
by sachin
Hello All,

I have a directory name with start with "\211". I am not able to delete this directory using simple rm command. Getting error message as directory not found.

If there any way I can delete such directories having weird name

Re: How to remove a directory name with space and special charactors

Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2016 9:14 am
by felix
I think you can try to remove the directory with their inode value.

Re: How to remove a directory name with space and special charactors

Posted: Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:41 pm
by sachin
hello,

Could you able to point few examples on how to do the same?