Strang Directory $external_c and $internal_c

[DarkF@der]

Hello,

A client of us seems to have some strangs directory's
I can't acces them with root acces......

ls -la /var/www/vhosts/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/httpdocs

drwxrwxrwx 3 webmaster psacln 4096 Jan 23 11:38 $external_c
drwxrwxrwx 3 webmaster psacln 4096 Feb 3 22:15 $internal_c

if i want to acces them like cd $external_c i got redirected to my /root dir
I can't acces it or look inside the directory's
How the acces these directory's in linux or deleet these directory?


Thanks in advanced

[mikeshinn]

$ tells the shell that this is a variable, and since the variable is empty its throwing you back to /.

So, the solution is to escape the $ by using the \ meta-character to tell the shell that its a literal character. For example:

cd \$external_c

[DarkF@der]

Thank you