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From: Andrew Lowe <gentoo.email@wht.com.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters.
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 10:25:59 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5a4dcf0-4dcd-4cf4-9a65-0ce7d751d855@wht.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32f571c7-de3f-53da-185a-9cdfa0797a93@gmail.com>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-11-01 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-29 15:18 [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters Dale
2024-10-29 15:47 ` Michael
2024-10-29 16:18   ` Dale
2024-10-29 16:40     ` Michael
2024-10-29 18:05       ` Dale
2024-10-30  3:05         ` Eli Schwartz
2024-10-30 17:25           ` Dale
2024-11-01  2:25 ` Andrew Lowe [this message]
2024-11-01 14:16   ` Jack Ostroff
2024-11-01 16:02     ` Dale
2024-11-03 23:52 ` Wol

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