[Novalug] Messed up file title problem

[Peter Larsen]

On Sun, 2010-03-21 at 06:23 -0700, Bryan J. Smith wrote:

> On Sun, 3/21/10, Dan Arico <dan_arico at aricosystems.com> wrote:
> > This might be one of those cases where the file name
> > contains a character that 
> > cannot be displayed. If that's it, wildcarding may be the
> > only way to do it.
> 
> Have to agree.  It's not a space if escaping and quoting are
> not working.
> 
> Globs (DOS term: wildcards) are the way to go at this point.
> Use "?" for a single character, "*" for multiple characters,
> between the known characters.



There's definitely other methods. First, you have gnome's or KDE's file
managers. Just right click and do rename. Second, "tab" after you start
writing the file-name, and "a little magic" happens and the file gets
auto-escaped with the right character - in particular if it's the only
file.

I would NEVER trust globs/wildcards in a case when I have to use rm or
other manipulation tools. Too many times a little typo has cause big
havoc when you use tools like that. The infamous "rm -rf . /" - the
little space that does a lot of harm. It scares me to think of using *
or even ? to remove a file you don't know the name of. Most of my
directories have quite a few files in them. If I just want one file
removed, I want to give a specific name and not risk removing files I
want to keep.

-- 

Best Regards
  Peter Larsen

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