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Date:      Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:27:47 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>
To:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   how to rename a file with "!", "?", and other strange chars?
Message-ID:  <20050917232747.GA76966@thought.org>

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	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?

	gary


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