[Gllug] Finding filenames with special characters (was Mass renaming of files)

[Richard Jones]

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 12:33:59PM +0100, Simon Morris wrote:
> [simon at wt-linux-01 clients]$ ls -lb | less
> total 60
> dr-xr-xr-x    3 root     root         4096 Aug 29  2001 \ \

Possibly a directory name consisting of two consecutive spaces. It's
easy to get rid of it:

mv "  " new_name

Rich.

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