On Tuesday 29 October 2024 16:18:21 GMT Dale wrote: > Michael wrote: > > In a terminal running bash you can try: > > > > mv ./-ne.avi newname.avi > > > > or use a double dash to indicate end of options for the preceding command: > > > > mv -- -ne.avi newname.avi > > > > For a GUI-fied application, you can use 'kde-misc/krename'. > > Now that is awesome. The first one works great. Haven't had the need > to try others yet but figure they would work too. Finally, I can rename > these files with weird characters. I never knew a -- meant end of > options before. Been using Linux for a couple decades and never saw > that info.
I've seen it in the man pages of revdep-rebuild, perl-cleaner, et al. and have been using it for a long time. For example with revdep-rebuild I use it to pass additional options to the emerge command, which is called from within revdep-rebuild: revdep-rebuild -v -- -a This gives me a list and waits for my acknowledgement before it starts re- emerging any packages.
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