DirectoryFile 'Stuck' in Webspace 189

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 18:01:11 +0000, Roy Schestowitz staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Yeah, badly-designed interfaces don't deal well with filenames that have "weird characters" in them.

The output you posted above makes me think that the directory was created with a strange character in it. Use "ls -b" on this directory to see what that strange character really is. Or use the shell's wildcards, as in "rmdir *PerturbationSpecification" .

"It hurts when I do this!" "Don't do that, then."

...having spaces in directory names, especially spaces at the beginning, tends to confuse some utilities. bash can usually deal with these things, but you have to know how to phrase the strange characters so that bash can understand them.

Your kernel is so old it has mold growing all over it. That may not matter to you until you want to plug in a USB-Firewire device that was made in the last year or so, and you find out that its device ID isn't in the old kernel's device list, but you should know that. HTH,

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