Michael wrote: > 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. >
I saw that but never understood what it did. I thought it was something that worked just with revdep-rebuild or something. So it is a bash thing. Interesting. That could open a can of worms. By the way, for giggles, I had a directory with several files with those weird characters so I tried Krename. I highlighted the files, opened with Krename, no files detected. For some reason, likely the same as Frank's checksum tool, it can't process those files with weird characters. Could be a bug or just no way around it. I'm not sure Frank has found a workaround for his script yet either. I did add your command line methods to my cheat sheet tho. Now if only I can remember what I added them as so I can find it later. o_O Dale :-) :-)
