I guess it bears repeating. Bluntly this time.

If you're going to send a follow request, please do something with your Mastodon/Pleroma/Whatever profile. No activity on your instance account looks fishy. 🐟 I'm just going to cancel it outright if that's the case.

I know I'm not the only one on the Fediverse that feels this way.

#psa

@claudiom Just made my first toot. This is the second post. Thanks for following me back, Claudio. I was hoping to find OpenBSD users/dev here who actually use the platform. Glad to see you're looking for community engagement too. I got a tech question for you, if you don't mind. To prove I'm not a bot, I'll wait for your reply to this.

@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"

@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.