Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 12:55:19 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to rename a file with "!", "?", and other strange chars? Message-ID: <20050918195519.GA83688@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20050918085735.GA31527@holestein.holy.cow> References: <20050917232747.GA76966@thought.org> <20050918085735.GA31527@holestein.holy.cow>
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On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 04:57:35AM -0400, Parv wrote: > in message <20050917232747.GA76966@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 > I've just signed aboard as a novice perlmonk... gary -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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