• xthexder@l.sw0.com
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    2 months ago

    I once accidentally created a file with a newline character in it… it was pretty tricky to fix from command line.

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      2 months ago

      Did you not just use tab? That’s the usual method of dealing with weird characters in filenames that I’ve found

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        2 months ago

        This was quite a while ago now, but I don’t think my shell escaped the tab complete properly, I remember it just printing a literal newline and evaluating it as a second command. I think there was other unicode in there too, otherwise I would have just typed it out. I had to do something with null terminated output and piping it in to mv, but I can’t remember what exactly.