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.

  • Gobbel2000@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    My experience is you should try to always use find over ls when writing robust scripts, and consider ls as just an end user tool, not a scripting tool.