[Klug-general] My PFY

[Thomas Edward Groves]

Now he tells me - LOL

Tom
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From: J D Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk>
To: <kent at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Klug-general] My PFY


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> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:10:54AM +0100, David Halliday wrote:
> > couldn't this be managed with the find application. Something along the
> > lines of "find all files with "-" in their name and replace it with sed
> > acting on the mv command. OK this will probably require going in a
script
> > but interesting problem.
> >
> > My biggest joy with file names was using get_iplayer when there was a
show
> > containing cover versions of Bob Dylan songs called "...sings Dylan"
After
> > downloading it I couldn't find it in my file browser until I looked
again at
> > the programme name and realised that the system had concluded that it
was a
> > file to be hidden.
>
> The writers of many tools have thought about this.
>
> Given a file called "-rf" you can remove it with:
>
> rm -- -rf
>
> This works with the majority of command line tools.
>
> J
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