Rename / remove directory 1

[christiniaroelin]

Folks,

Im trying to rename or remove a directory named '-ltr' which was created in error. The problem being faced is that when used with "mv" / "rmdir" command , it treats the dir name -ltr as flag...is there any way to get arround this??

Thanks
Chris

 

[SamBones]

Try this...

rmdir -- -ltr

Hope this helps.

 

[PHV]

Or simply:
rmdir ./-ltr

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[SamBones]

Or...

rmdir ./-ltr

Hope this helps.

 

[christiniaroelin]

Thanks for your replies..but still have the undesired output
rmdir: ./-ltr: No such file or directory

regrads,
chris

 

[PHV]

And this ?
rm -ri ./*-ltr*

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[SamBones]

Well, are you sure the directory is still there?

 

[KarveR]

if created in error, has it any ivisible characters added to the name ?

rm -rf "-l<press tab to complete name> and close " [return]

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[theotyflos]

or use: rmdir \-ltr
or: rmdir '-ltr' # single quotes

If the directory isn't empty use rm -r instead of rmdir.

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[p5wizard]

To find the real name (including non-printable characters):

cd /parent/dir
find . -type d -ls|grep ltr|od -xc

If you can't figure it out, post the output of that find command string and I'll have a look.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[SamBones]

Easier way to find non-printable characters is the [tt]-b[/tt] option of [tt]ls[/tt]. That prints non-printable characters in octal.

ls -lab *l*t*r*

Hope this helps.

 

[p5wizard]

-b option of ls does not show/highlight space characters...

HTH,

p5wizard

 

[mohmin]

Hi,christini..

Try rm -i ./-ltr or

rm -i /-ltr

 

[stefanwagner]

Hey, not easy!
I thought

rmdir .ltr

would do the job, if no other directory would match .ltr
But I had to do:

find . -type d -name "?ltr" -exec rm -rf "{}" \;

with the same assumtion: no other directory matching *ltr*.

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