This is all we've got: root at jubuntu:/media/Jrobo/03 - Tagged, Listened, Unsorted# ls -al total 24 drwxr-xr-x 5 root daemon 20480 2008-03-21 19:05 . drwxrwxrwx 11 hewhocutsdown hewhocutsdown 4096 2008-03-21 18:54 .. *?--------- ? ? ? ? ? 2006-07-10 - Sæglópur* root at jubuntu:/media/Jrobo/03 - Tagged, Listened, Unsorted# Should be a folder with about a dozen files inside On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Stuart, Joseph <Joseph.Stuart at capella.edu> wrote: > Is there already a file named 1 in the parent directory? > > > ----- > Sent from my wireless device > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jordan Peacock <hewhocutsdown at gmail.com> > To: Stuart, Joseph > CC: tclug-list at mn-linux.org <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> > Sent: Fri Mar 21 20:05:12 2008 > Subject: Re: [tclug-list] Renaming a folder with a different character set > > 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 > -- 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/bb1dd61d/attachment.htm