[EdLUG] renaming of illegal filenames

[Stephen C. Tweedie]

Hi,

On Wed, 2015-05-20 at 10:58 +0100, Joe Barnett wrote:

> I've drawn a blank here,  I have a few files which I want to move but
> mv does not like them and rename will not touch them.  I cannot even
> directly ls them.

"--" separates options from arguments for most of coreutils.  So any
arguments beginning in a "-" will be correctly processed if you precede
them with the "--".

So "mv -- * [dest]" should work fine for these files.

--Stephen