[wplug] removing/copying strange filenames

[Tom Rhodes]

On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:54:38 -0500
Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sometimes I encounter filenames such as '???.zip' (where ??? are
> characters in Japanese or something which my system isn't setup for)
> or stranger ones like:
> 
> 'file\\/name/\/'
> '---file --- name "
> '(Ebook) Linux Gnu C Compiler'
> '  ,  file -- name'
> ',,, (file) | =name='
> '[file name]'
> '%%file - name%%'
> 
> What is the   best way to handle these files in terms of removing or
> copying them to a more sane filename?

Either escape them if they're a character like "?" or use
rm -- -file if it's a hyphen.

-- 
Tom Rhodes