I don't think it realizes it is a folder: root at jubuntu:/media/Jrobo/03 - Tagged, Listened, Unsorted# for i in ./*; do mv $i 1; done *mv: target `1' is not a directory* I'm assuming you meant run that from the parent directory of the mystery directory. On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Stuart, Joseph <Joseph.Stuart at capella.edu> wrote: > Is this the only folder in the dir? If so > Cd to dir > > for i in ./*; do mv $i 1; done > > > > > ----- > Sent from my wireless device > > > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org <tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org> > To: Dean E <dean at ripperd.com> > CC: Twin Cities Linux User's Group <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Fri Mar 21 19:53:30 2008 > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Renaming a folder with a different character set > > Sorry, not a programmer, all I can muster is pseudo-code myself! *laughs* > > Got a shell script? > > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Dean E <dean at ripperd.com> wrote: > > > And if tab-completion can't grab it yet, try something like this > pseudo > code in C or perl: > > int i=1 > for each $folder in $currentworkingdir{ > rename $folder $i > i++ > } > > I think that will grab them without ever knowing their original > names, > and rename the folders to 1,2,3,4, etc. > > > > > Elvedin Trnjanin wrote: > > Open up command line (terminal) and change directory to where > that > > directory or file is located. Type in "mv 2006***press tab > button > > here*** newname" where ***press tab button here*** means you > actually > > press the tab button (once or twice) for tab name completion. > > > > Jordan Peacock wrote: > >> I'm not 100% sure how this folder arrived on my doorstep, but > I'm > >> having some problems with it. As you can see in the screenshot, > the > >> name is pretty bizarre, and once I click on the folder (i know > it's > >> supposed to be a folder) it disappears. Attempting to move it > or > >> rename it using the command line have failed so far. > >> > >> Any ideas? There are files inside that folder that I need. > >> > >> Thank you > >> > >> -- > >> Jordan Peacock > >> hewhocutsdown at gmail.com <mailto:hewhocutsdown at gmail.com<hewhocutsdown at gmail.com> > > > >> hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com <http://hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com> > >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > > > -- > Jordan Peacock > hewhocutsdown at gmail.com > hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com > -- Jordan Peacock hewhocutsdown at gmail.com hewhocutsdown.blogspot.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080321/5c4d526a/attachment.htm