• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    21 hours ago

    $ indicates that the string following is an env variable, but you just have a closing quote, so bash is confused.

    If you want the literal character $ in your command, you must escape it: \$

    Edit: afaik my answer does not change based on the fact that this is fish instead of bash or zsh. The $ is outside of the single quotes, and is thus being interpreted as an env var anchor.

        • Strider@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          21 hours ago

          Of course. It could work totally different from bash.

          To be fair I saw some cool fish stuff and thought about using it but when maintaining a few thousand servers with bash its not viable to load an alternative shell to all of them.

        • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          21 hours ago

          In that case, I think you want

          rm -rf "'folder'\$'\\003'"

          Note the double escape before 003, which will render to the character literal \

          Alternatively, start typing

          rm -rf \'fo

          And then hit tab until fish autocompletes the directory you want to kill, and run it.

          Side note: i would absolutely not tolerate directories named like that lol

  • ratajsEnglish
    2·
    20 hours ago

    This syntax works for me on Bash and Zsh. Your shell might have a different way of writing escape sequences.

      • ratajsEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        They are not identical, but more they are quite compatible, most of Bash syntax and built-in commands work on Zsh as well. From what I’ve heard, Fish differs from them a lot. I use primarily Zsh, but sometimes run Bash if I need it for something (before ** started working on Zsh, I used Bash globstar when I needed it, for example).