I installed some software and I think afterwards I was navigating through CLI and noticed that some directories or some files in some directories had single quotation marks around the names. They don’t appear in the GUI. How do I get rid of them? Do I have to use a recursive command to delete the quotation marks for the entire file system?

I’ve actually had this problem a few times in the past but cannot recall why they happen nor what the solution was.

  • @FalmarriEnglish
    16•1 year ago

    The backslash is escaping the space, and the forward slash is just how tab complete works, because it’s a directory, and you might be wanting to add more to go further down the directory tree

    • elouboub
      15•1 year ago

      I am impressed nobody called OP a noob and told him to “RTFM”. Good job y’all! Keep being a positive force.

      • wolfshadowheart
        11•1 year ago

        Somewhat surprisingly the fediverse has been much kinder for Linux learners than my experience everywhere else online the last decade :)