Saved a file in the wrong location and I cannot retrieve it I was using ssh-keygen which at some point asked me where I wanted my public key and my identification saved. I typed \ by mistake and the result was:


  Your identification was saved in \.
  Your public key was saved in \.pub.


Now I cannot seem to find them. Can I find out what happened and delete those files? I could not find them with ls -la \. Actually it starts some type of prompt. Any help would be appreciated.
You need to use two back slashes. In the terminal using the bash shell (which it is by default) the backslash character tells bash to allow you to continue typing commands on a new line (hence the prompt you saw).

So if you do ls -la \\ that should show you the contents of "\"

Likewise mv \\ fixed should rename the folder to "fixed"