FreeBSD Deletion of Directory Unknown

[Guest_imported]

We have a garbage directory (we presume), we don't know where it came from, and we need to delete it. We can not use the "ls" command to view the directery, and we have tried various methods of deleting it, such as "rm -r", "rmdir", and various others. On attempt to delete the directory we recieve an error, "zsh: bad patter: [file name]". Oddly the file name contains hidden characters and unknown characters (to us). It is a FreeBSD system.

Does anyone have any ideas on how you might solve this? ?

 

[cruel]

Here is what I know to get around with hidden characters in Unix. Try to replace the suspicious characters in the dir name with wildcard characters, such as * or ?. To avoid mistakes, you should have BSD to prompt for confirmation before any deletion. Hope it helps.