[EdLUG] renaming of illegal filenames

[Tai Kedzierski]

When they send you such files, just tell them the files are broken and get
them to send again (whilst you secretly get the work done early). They'll
eventually learn and you'll have gained some breathing time :-p



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On 20 May 2015 at 12:24, Joe Barnett <joe-barnett at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Thanks guys!
>
> I knew there must be a simple answer.  Now to try to get people to stop
> naming files like that....
>
> Joe.
>
> On 20 May 2015 at 11:02, Stephen C. Tweedie <sct at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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