Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters.

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Jack Ostroff wrote:
> On 10/31/24 10:25 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
>> On 10/29/24 11:18 PM, Dale wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I downloaded some files.  I have a few that have some weird names. 
>>> Some
>>> have those picture type characters.  Some start with a dash, "-".  In
>> [snip]
>>
>>     Plenty of people have replied with good info. My 2c from when I
>> came across this exact problem is "vidir" contained in "moreutils".
>>
>>     Also, thumbs up for the tid-bit on "--" terminating the options
>> string.
>>
>>     Andrew
>
> To add another 2c, 'ls -b' should show escape sequences you should be
> able to use to type in the characters, so I'm curious what that would
> have showed.  I also still wonder what Dolphin did - Dale said it 
> failed, but not how.
>
> Jack
>
>
>


Believe it or not, it said the files didn't exist when I tried to rename
in Properties.  Also, thumbnails wouldn't work either.  It wouldn't work
for pics, videos, documents or anything.  I guess I'm lucky it showed
them at all.  Once those characters were removed, then thumbnails and
such showed up again. 

It was interesting problem for sure.  I'm not sure if it can be fixed
tho.  Fix that problem and it could break something else.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-)