@FiXato No, but you never know.

@bob Agreed, but that might be up to the instance.

@wauz I thought it was just a case of acid reflux that they had. 🐻

@scooterbird I just saw it as I approved you. 😁

@scooterbird Also, the moment I saw screenshots during IGWH, I knew I had to approve. 😅

@mike Well, if it was a best friend, they might be willing to send a private message or engage in some sort of way. Most of these seemingly empty accounts that send requests don't. I guess if you know that people aren't going to identify you off the bat, you might want to say hello or something. Kind of like when someone knocks on your door. You ask, "Who is it?" Ideally, the person knocking identifies themselves. If not, #getoffmylawn. 😉

@buttstuf who are you? 😜

@learningopenbsd Welcome to the fediverse! 🐡 👍

@claudiom

Thanks!

So my question for you is this: How do I rename a file that has a corrupted filename? I downloaded a song and the filename got all jumbled with question marks, and mv doesn't seem to recognize what I'm trying to do when I attempt renaming it (tab-completion doesn't fill the rest off the name).

The file name is something like ???It???s Name of the song???.mp3

I read the mv man page and I'm not seeing a solution to this. I also read the rename man page but that's a little beyond my ability right now.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

@learningopenbsd Put that filename in between quotes.

@claudiom

"No such file or directory"

@claudiom

I can't select the file in my media player either. I wonder if that means the system doesn't see it? I'd delete it and and just download the song again but I can't even delete it.

@learningopenbsd The command should be as follows:

mv "???It???s Name of the song???.mp3" CorrectName.mp3

Is that what you tried?

@claudiom

Sorry for the delayed response. Yes, exactly, with the necessary \ at the end of the words, too.

I read a tutorial for mv (for Linux) somewhere that said to place \ before the ???s and that didn't work either.

So far I've tried:

1)

$ mv "???It???s Name of the song???.mp3" CorrectName.mp3

double quotation marks

2)

$ mv '???It???s Name of the song???.mp3' CorrectName.mp3

single quotation marks

3) $ mv \???It???s\ Name\ of\ the\ song???.mp3 CorrectName.mp3

with backslash

3)

$ mv "\???It???s\ Name\ of\ the\ song???.mp3 CorrectName.mp3

double quotation marks with backslashes

4) mv '\???It???s\ Name\ of\ the\ song???.mp3' CorrectName.mp3

single quotation marks with backslashes

@claudiom

Example number 3 in real-world use had the ending quotation mark. I accidentally didn't type it in in that last toot.

3 properly reads (i double checked my terminal history to confirm I typed):

$ mv ""\???It???s\ Name\ of\ the\ song???.mp3" CorrectName.mp3

It still doesn't work.

I'm going crazy here.

@learningopenbsd I believe the escape slashes are only if you're not using the quotes.

@learningopenbsd OK, try this workaround. Install bash and then do it with the quotes. Ksh can be funky sometimes with things like that. You can delete bash once you're done with it.

@claudiom

bash-5.0$ doas mv "???It???s Name of the song???.mp3" CorrectName.mp3: No such file or directory

I think the wildcards are somehow preventing the system from (even Bash) from knowing it's there.

I'm just gonna delete it and redownload.

@claudiom

Thanks for your help, Claudio. I hope I to one day know how to help others and be as willing to help them as you have been willing to help me today.

Thanks and God bless.