• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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      1 month ago

      Oh hey, seeing that has just given me another idea (not sure if anyone else mentioned this yet elsewhere further down in the conversation… but…)

      Tried just using a unique portion of the name that’s easy to type, along with asterisks for the rest? e.g. rmdir *old*00* (or rm -r if it’s not an empty dir you want rid of).

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      1 month ago

      As the other commenters and I have mentioned, you should try escaping any of the special characters ', $, and \ by a backslash, i.e. \', \$ and \\