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From: Jack Ostroff <ostroffjh@users.sourceforge.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming files with those pesky picture type characters.
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 10:16:42 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4db54af-03ce-4de9-91ca-d321310a1338@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5a4dcf0-4dcd-4cf4-9a65-0ce7d751d855@wht.com.au>

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



  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-01 14:17 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
2024-11-01 14:16   ` Jack Ostroff [this message]
2024-11-01 16:02     ` Dale
2024-11-03 23:52 ` Wol

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