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Single quotation marks suddenly appear around file and directory names in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for explaining. How do I go about editing the bashrc file to add the export line? I am still relatively new to linux and the file has a warning about making changes unless I know what I'm doing.

Single quotation marks suddenly appear around file and directory names in c/[email protected]
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

Thanks. The export command got rid of the quotation marks but I still have an issue where when I cd into one of the directories that had quotation marks (a directory with two words in the name) there is a backslash after the first word and a forward slash at the end of the file name when I use tab to complete the rest of the file name.

Single quotation marks suddenly appear around file and directory names in c/[email protected]
Single quotation marks suddenly appear around file and directory names in c/[email protected]
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Single quotation marks suddenly appear around file and directory names (discuss.tchncs.de)
 

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.