Random \ In Home Dir

carlosinfl · 08-01-2012, 09:01 PM

Can anyone explain what the '\' is in the 'ls -l' output? This is a new database server and I can't seem to remove or rename this. Anyone know how I can remove the following?

Code:

[oracle@zombie ~]$ ls -la
total 28
drwx------  2 oracle oinstall 4096 Aug  1 21:52 .
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root   root     4096 Jul 26 14:20 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall  401 Jul 27 10:17 \
-rw-------  1 oracle oinstall 2044 Aug  1 21:53 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall   18 Apr 23 06:53 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall  392 Jul 31 13:33 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r--  1 oracle oinstall  124 Apr 23 06:53 .bashrc

chrism01 · 08-01-2012, 09:04 PM

Code:

 rm '\'

PTrenholme · 08-01-2012, 09:08 PM

Try sudo rm \\. Since the backslash is a escape character, you need to double it in the command line. Alternatively, open a file manager as "root" or "oracle," highlight the file and press "shift-del" (or just "del," if you want it in the "trash" directory).