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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Did you not just use tab? That's the usual method of dealing with weird characters in filenames that I've found

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 2 points 10 months ago

This was quite a while ago now, but I don't think my shell escaped the tab complete properly, I remember it just printing a literal newline and evaluating it as a second command. I think there was other unicode in there too, otherwise I would have just typed it out. I had to do something with null terminated output and piping it in to mv, but I can't remember what exactly.

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago

Too bad when there's multiple files starting with and consisting mostly of e.g. kanji (when on a Latin keyboard).

[-] brotundspiele@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

With the right shell, you can just press tab multiple times to cycle through the possible completions.

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