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I have an old server, rhel 7.9, that just got dropped into my lap.
I need to locate something, but I noticed something I hadn't seen before.
Doing a locate, I had a path show up that looked like this:
/\var
It appears to take my jut to the normal /var, but any reason it shows a \?
Might be nothing, I've just never seen a backslash in a directory path.

Nevermind, figured it out. Now, how to delete this post.

Really bad manners to delete posts!, Post your solution and mark the thread solved via the thread tools.

Yes. Please share what you learned when you "figured it out"

I suppose it wasn't so much figuring it out, but I'd never seen something like that.
Basically, what it was was //var//www, instead of the typical /var/www. I had to use a different command that what I normally use, to see it, dir
Pretty basic, I'd never used dir before, but then I'd never seen /\ before, either.

Just comes down to finding something new.

dir is not standard.
Figure it out with
Do the same with ls
Try \ls to bypass aliasing.
Try ls -N to disable quoting.

\ls does the same as dir, for me.
ls -N doesn't do anything different than ls. Again, for me.
Point is, dir did the trick. It was just something new, I hadn't used before.

it exists: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/dir.1.html
or probably: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreuti...dir-invocation