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 some cases I can use wild cards to change them. Frank gave me some ideas on that off list, while discussing his nifty checksum tool. Anyway, I ran up on a few that start with a dash, "-", and I can't find a way around that. The mv command thinks it is me trying to include a option. It spits out something like this.
mv: unrecognized option '---ne.avi' Some of the other characters I run into look like this. ���� Those I can usually get around with wildcards. I have not found a way to get around the ones with the dash in front tho. I tried a single quote, double quote etc but still no worky. Also, tab completion doesn't help either. One reason I want to change these, it makes Frank's script puke on my keyboard. It reacts the same way with Franks script as it does when I try to use cp or mv. Why someone would name files that way is beyond me. What is the trick to rename these files? I've tried mv, Dolphin, Krusader and such. There has to be a way but I can't figure out what it is. Heck, I'm not even sure what to search for to find out how to do this. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
