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Explain Like I'm Five

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When i am trying to remove the underlined folder using the rm command, this is the result that is being shown. What does this mean ?? (retrofed.com)
submitted 8 hours ago by LoveEspresso@retrofed.com to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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[–] LoveEspresso@retrofed.com 1 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Here's the result :

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[–] Calfpupa@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

You put an extra backslash in there, it should be rm -r "folder'\$'003"

[–] LoveEspresso@retrofed.com 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

After this, i gave the ls command, and it's showing up.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Did you try with bash autocomplete?

rm -r folder

And see how it spells it? Also you could wildcard depending on what you (don't) want to delete in the process.