how to rename a file with "!", "?", and other strange chars?

Parv parv at pair.com
Sun Sep 18 01:57:35 PDT 2005


in message <20050917232747.GA76966 at thought.org>,
wrote Gary Kline thusly...
>
> I scarfed up a slew of php files that are around 100 bytes in
> strlen and with "\ " and other non-shell-friendly bytes.  Is there
> a way to use perl to chop off the first N bytes?
> 
> For example, a file many be named 00001\ 00002xyz\?00003=Test.php.
> What's the most logical way to perl this file to "Test.php?

Perl:
  http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=303814
  http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=277174

Other:
  http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22file+name%22+unusal+OR+weird+characters+group%3Acomp.unix.*
  http://groups.google.com/groups?q=rename+unusal+OR+weird+characters+group%3Acomp.unix.*


  - Parv

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