Ok, I screwed up. Not badly or anything, but still.

Here's what I did. I was un-raring a film (legally obtained, ofc) from my download drive to my movie store. Both drives are in the same Linux box. Problem is I mistyped the command and have now got a little problem.

Instead of typing this:

unrar x movie.file.r01 /mnt/music/HTPC\ Movies/Name\ of\ the\ Film/

I typed this:

unrar x movie.file.r01 /mnt/music/HTPC\ Movies/ Name\ of\ the\ Film/

The extra space after "Movies" has caused the film, all 8 gig of it, to be extracted to a hidden and unreachable folder called " Name of the Film" with a space before it.

Now, I cannot see this folder in bash or in explorer, deleting it returns a file not found but if I try and extract something to the same path it asks if I want to overwrite it, so it is there. Admittedly I have around 5 terra in my server box so I am not desperate for space, but its not the point.

So - how the heck do I delete this folder and its contents?

Cheers in advance.

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"Fire rained from the sky on the day I was born: 10,000 lives I ended before drawing first breath. Do not speak to me of guilt or regret, Jonathan.” - Brayan, The Keepers of the Fire

/me points to ditch

LOL. yeah, Ditch caught me in IRC and resolved it for me. Thanks again Ditch!

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"Fire rained from the sky on the day I was born: 10,000 lives I ended before drawing first breath. Do not speak to me of guilt or regret, Jonathan.” - Brayan, The Keepers of the Fire

If you'd post the solution here this thread wouldn't just be taking up space.

also inb4 all of my posts are just a waste of space.

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slurper

unrar x movie.file.r01 /mnt/music/HTPC\ Movies/ Name\ of\ the\ Film/

because of the additional space the shell parses the input as two arguments instead of one.
the result basically was that the movie was unrared to the directory "Name of the Film" in the directory the command was issued from.

btw, everytime saint points to me, he messages the solution to me, so i know what to say.

You're an internet marionette?

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