Problem with $ folder

folder with $ as the start of the name causing problems

[DrivingLester]

I accidently created a user and home directory with $ in front of the name ie. $FOLDER. (don't ask ;) ). Anyway, now my SAMBA users don't have write access to any of their shares. Turns out when I cd into the $FOLDER it brings me into the root folder.... so everytime I try to delete it, it wants to delete everything on my machine. The permissions from the $FOLDER seem to have propogated down from the root to all folders. I can't chown or chmod the folder either. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, this is urgent!

TIA!

Mat

[mm1220]

Try a backslash: i.e. use \$FOLDER. This should work.

Without a backslash a unix shell will take $FOLDER to mean the variable FOLDER.