From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: will.senn@gmail.com (Will Senn)
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 22:50:54 -0600
Subject: [TUHS] tar on v6 not creating directories on v6
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On 12/12/15 4:23 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Presumably, it's not 'y' but has some non-printable characters in it. 
> You could try "od -c ." to see what the entry actually is, or move 
> t.tar out of the way and "rm -r" remove the next level up.
Saved by the source (of rm, then glob):

Solution:

cd into directory containing y (thankfully not a directory with other 
files):

/etc/glob rmdir "*"

:) Yay, another small victory.

-- Will