Delete file backslash name

Learn more. Asked 6 months ago. Active 6 months ago. Viewed times. Improve this question. BeastOfCaerbannog 7, 9 9 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 55 55 bronze badges. PythonUser PythonUser 13 3 3 bronze badges. PythonUser I was more interested in whether it's the perl based file-rename or the util-linux implementation - the version number suggests the former but the syntax of your attempt suggests the latter — steeldriver.

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Viewed 5k times. I'm on CentOS 7. Improve this question. Legit Stack Legit Stack 1 1 gold badge 3 3 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Backslashes inside double-quotes only escape double-quotes, backslashes and backticks, so rm ". Good point, ilkkachu. Best not to rely on something "probably" working. That said, with someone doesn't know anything about shell escapes as is the case with the person asking here I always teach them single-quotes first, because I've seen far more non-obvious hard-to-debug problems from people aiming for literal strings and not remembering that some characters are special in double-quotes than than I've seen from people accidentally not getting the special interpretation they want from single-quotes.

Learn more. Delete files with backslash in linux Ask Question. Asked 6 years, 6 months ago. Active 1 year, 4 months ago. Viewed 6k times. Improve this question. I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's not a programming issue. HoboSapiens: I'm torn. The OP's goal is not programming-related, but the underlying problem is with the shell syntax, and the solution is to understand shell syntax better. This is the first search result for various searches along the lines of "linux remove backslash filename".

It's an incredibly-frustrating issue for programmers who mis-type something since the solution isn't always intuitive. I recommend leaving this solution available to us clutzy typists.