Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Sat Sep 1 19:50:48 UTC 2012


On 09/01/2012 12:27 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Joe Zeff<joe at zeff.us>  wrote:
>> >Have you tried putting quotation marks around the name to keep it from being
>> >expanded?
> Yes, tried everything... wildcards, enclosing it, rename first, move,
> rename with wildcards.... nothing works. :-(

OK, well, it was worth asking, JIC.

See if you can find a LiveCD that includes emacs.  (Yes, specifically 
emacs.)  Open up the directory from a command line in dired mode.  (You 
do this by specifying the directory on the command line instead of a 
file.)  What you'll see is a directory listing *that you can edit.* 
Edit the file name by removing/changing the question mark, and do any 
other tidying up you think needed.  Save, exit and Bjorn 
Stronginthearm's your uncle.


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