On 10/31/24 10:25 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote:
On 10/29/24 11:18 PM, Dale wrote:
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
[snip]
Plenty of people have replied with good info. My 2c from when I
came across this exact problem is "vidir" contained in "moreutils".
Also, thumbs up for the tid-bit on "--" terminating the options
string.
Andrew
To add another 2c, 'ls -b' should show escape sequences you should be
able to use to type in the characters, so I'm curious what that would
have showed. I also still wonder what Dolphin did - Dale said it
failed, but not how.
Jack
