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How to access the folder which contains apostrophe in name using 'ls' ( diag mode)

koushi — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 20:30:04 GMT

Hi All,

Can anyone please let me know .. How to access folders which contains apostrophe(') in it.

Overview : -- Im trying to access one of the folder ( ex :- Koushik's book ) using ls (diag mode).

Error : --- ls '"\vol\testvol\testqtree\Koushik's book"'

Error quote inside

I need to restore one of the folder from snapshots so i cant rename the folder as well as it is snapshot.

Jeff_Yao — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 03:58:20 GMT

can you try to use "file explorer"(if cifs) with the "~" to get into the snapshot and copy the data out? or "." from nfs.

below kb should help

YIshikawa — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 04:30:28 GMT

Use slash as path delimiter in stead of backslash.

fas01*> ls "/vol/vol1/qtree1/Koushik's book"
.
..
test.txt
fas01*>

koushi — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:45:10 GMT

Rather than working from rsh . I've did ls from filer in diag mode .It got worked out.