[SOLVED] Octal and other weird characters in a directory path

Good day!

Somehow there is a directory w/ octal characters and other weird characters in a directory on my server:

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fermulator@fermmy-server:/media/disks/my_directory$ ls -al | grep PACK
drwxrwx---+ 2 www-data www-data 4096 2009-12-06 15:05 ����������������Ѫ���ӡ�PACK-����Ӱ�Ӹ��巢���

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I did some reading and apparently this might be octal characters ... ok, use ls w/ "-b":

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fermulator@fermmy-server:/media/disks/my_directory$ ls -alb | grep PACK
drwxrwx---+ 2 www-data www-data 4096 2009-12-06 15:05 \241\266\271\376\300\373\241\244\262\250\314\330\3 23\353\273\354Ѫ\315\365\327ӡ\267PACK-\310\313\310\313Ӱ\312Ӹ\337\307巢\262\274\327\351

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If I try to CD into it w/ or w/out the escaped octal characters, it says "no such file or directory".

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fermulator@fermmy-server:/media/disks/my_directory$ cd "\241\266\271\376\300\373\241\244\262\250\314\330\ 323\353\273\354Ѫ\315\365\327ӡ\267PACK-\310\313\310\313Ӱ\312Ӹ\337\307巢\262\274\327\351"
-bash: cd: \241\266\271\376\300\373\241\244\262\250\314\330\3 23\353\273\354Ѫ\315\365\327ӡ\267PACK-\310\313\310\313Ӱ\312Ӹ\337\307巢\262\274\327\351: No such file or directory

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fermulator@fermmy-server:/media/disks/my_directory$ cd "����������������Ѫ���ӡ�PACK-����Ӱ�Ӹ��巢���"
-bash: cd: ����������������Ѫ���ӡ�PACK-����Ӱ�Ӹ��巢���: No such file or directory

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Any idea how to rename this directory to regular characters? It contains files I need.

Thanks to fox2k for the tip!

SOLUTION -- using "find" does the trick!

# the following script searches in the "my_directory" for all files, filters to the "PACK" file with all those weird characters. Since find by default is recursive, it was able to see inside the "crazy" directory, and also list all those files, so I filtered again for the "file_i_need", and moved it to the temp dir!

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mkdir temp_PACK
for file in $(find . | grep PACK | grep file_i_need); do echo $file; mv $file temp_pack; done

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