trouble deleting files / directories
 

im tring to go thru a directory and get rid of some useless stuff. my problem is that i have directories that wont allow me to do anything to them, even in root.

i cant look into them, i cant delete them, i cant move them.

would certin characters effect how linux acts with the directory name? most of these were "dumped" off of a windows xp box, so they are really long with some characters you dont usually use for a filename. example being "&" and
" ' "

heres an example of one of my directories.

Lynard\ Skynard\ -\ Live\ -\ disk\ 1\ &\ 2

thanks for any help or insight.

Special Characters
 

Any character treated as "special" by the shell you're using needs to be escaped if it's part of a filename. For example, space, hash (pound), back-slash, forward-slash, and much more. But these characters, though most of them apply to many shells, are in the end shell-dependent. If you're doing this by hand and using bash, tab-completion can be a real help, because names generated by tab-completion are automatically appropriately escaped.