Mohammad Al-Mossawi wrote:
> Dear Lug,
>
> Anyone can tell me how to solve this problem. I got a zip file which i
> extracted. The enclosed files names are in arabic so the result of the
> extraction looks like.
>
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 mossawi users 23342 2004-01-14 03:47 ??? ???.htm
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 mossawi users 2932048 2003-02-14 03:14 ?ك? ??.wmv
>
> Now, I can't execute these files coz they dont have a proper name i
> guess. I try renaming them, but how do you rename a file whith a funny name?
ugly as this sounds.. I make a temp dir.. move all the files with the same
extension except the one
I can't get at into that dir.. then do..
mv *.wmv newname.wmv
Ugly, but it's worked for me numerous times..
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