Unix shell / ssh - How to remove folder "backups\r\r"

Question

I accidentally created a directory named: backups\r\r. Any attempt at deleting it failed!

How can this directory be deleted?

Answer 1

use ANSI-C quoting: rmdir $'backups\r\r'

or delete interactively with pattern matching: rmdir -i backups??

Answer 2

You must escape the backslashes:

rmdir backups\\r\\r/