Re removing hyphens from filenames

Jamie Nicholson jamie.nicholson at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 12:15:59 BST 2007


>Oh that's *easy*! And there's only /one/ way to do it ...

You reckon?  I've found it defers from UNIX / shell, it's abit of a pain
though.  Try single quotes to start off i.e. rm 'file-name'.
You might then try escaping the hypen though I don't think that work rm
file\-name, or then if all else fails try a rm -i *.

That could possibly get it :)  But like a previous poster said why the heck
would people be asking this here anyway.

On 7/12/07, london.pm-request at london.pm.org <london.pm-request at london.pm.org>
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>    3. Re: Exception Handling (Matt Sergeant)
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>       cities. (muppet)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:46:49 +0100
> From: "Robin Barker" <Robin.Barker at npl.co.uk>
> Subject: RE: needs some advice - is london ok for Perl jobs or other
>         cities.
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> > Too many threads, pl. provide something meaningful.
> > Pl. am not offending anyone,
>
> Crime is worse in big cities rather than small cities or towns or the
> countryside.
>
> London is a big city, most other big cities are in the "industrial"
> "north" of England:
> from Birmingham/Leicester/Nottingham northwards to Newcastle (the one in
> the North :-)).
>
> Nevertheless many places in these big cities (London especially, perhaps)
> are peaceful,
> affluent and wonderful places.  Literally, you pay your money and makes
> your choice.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Robin
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> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:11:31 +0100
> From: "Pedro Figueiredo" <me at pedrofigueiredo.org>
> Subject: Re: needs some advice - is london ok for Perl jobs or other
>         cities.
> To: "London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
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> On 11/07/07, abhishek jain <mail at webbee.biz> wrote:
> > >
> > Too many threads, pl. provide something meaning ful.
> > Pl. am not offending anyone,
>
> don't ever ask how to remove a file with a hyphen in its name.
> --
> http://pedrofigueiredo.org/
> bgp is for those who can't keep it static long enough
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:30:47 +0100 (BST)
> From: Matt Sergeant <msergeant at messagelabs.com>
> Subject: Re: Exception Handling
> To: "London.pm Perl M\\[ou\\]ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
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> On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, Dave Cross wrote:
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> > We're currently contemplating changing the exception handling for the
> project
> > I'm maintaining and Mark's talk would be a good introduction to the
> issues we
> > need to consider. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be on the tech talk
> page
> > on the web site[2].
> >
> > So, does anyone have either a) a link to that talk or b) an interesting
> > opinion on which exception handlers I should be investigating?
>
> I try not to give opinions on which exception handling modules to use, but
> I do have a couple of talks on this:
>
> http://axkit.org/docs/presentations/tpc2002/exceptions.pdf
> http://axkit.org/docs/presentations/tpc2001/exceptions.axp/a.pdf
>
> (the first one is better than the second).
>
> Matt.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:20:49 +0100
> From: Smylers <Smylers at stripey.com>
> Subject: Re: Wikipedia on handheld devices
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> David Cantrell writes:
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> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 01:56:03AM +0100, Smylers wrote:
> >
> > > David Cantrell writes:
> > >
> > > > This was prompted by Wikipedia being impossible to use on my Treo
> > > > because the page layout assumes you have a large screen.
> > >
> > > Hmmm, the HTML source of Wikipedia pages seems to include:
> > >   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="handheld"
> > >   href="/skins-1.5/monobook/handheld.css?80" />
> > > So if your Treo is correctly identifying itself as a handheld device
> > > then it should get that version rather than the one for full-sized
> > > screens.
>
> I got that wrong (sorry).  It's the client, not the server, which picks
> which CSS is used.  The device should know that because it's handheld
> it's better downloading and using the style-sheet so labelled rather
> than the standard one.
>
> > If it does, then the stylesheet is broken, cos it's unusable.
>
> Possibly; I haven't got a suitable gadget for trying it out on, and I'm
> not sufficiently intrigued to bother downloading the CSS and manually
> applying it with a 'normal' browser.
>
> > > > I'm also finding it useful on a desktop because, without all the
> > > > images and the complex page layout, pages load faster.
> > >
> > > Looking at, say:
> > >   http://wikiproxy.cantrell.org.uk/?.=Richard+Thompson
> > > It seems quite similar to the effect you get merely by going to the
> > > Wikipedia page then in Firefox choosing [some menus]
> >
> > But I'm not running Firefox on my phone.  Nor does any normal person.
>
> Sure.  I only mentioned that as a quick way for anybody who happens to
> be using Firefox to see what the page looks like without CSS.
>
> And you do say above you're "also finding it useful on a desktop", where
> it's plausible you're running Firefox.
>
> > > That link explicitly says to preview MySkin on that page (but not on
> > > pages it links to).
> >
> > So not very useful really!
>
> It's useful for providing a link on a mailing list previewing what the
> output is like if you choose that 'skin' -- which is exactly what I was
> using it for!
>
> > And if this was widely known, I would have thought that google would
> > at least have been able to point me at it.
>
> Yeah, I can't remember where I knew this from.  I've hacked on a
> MediaWiki installation at work, and now know rather more about it than
> I'd like to.  But I agree this kind of thing is far from obvious.
>
> > Also, remember that removing cruft with a stylesheet still downloads
> > the cruft, it just doesn't display it.
>
> That's an excellent point that I hadn't thought of.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Smylers
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:39:29 -0400
> From: muppet <scott at asofyet.org>
> Subject: Re: needs some advice - is london ok for Perl jobs or other
>         cities.
> To: "London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
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> On Jul 11, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Pedro Figueiredo wrote:
>
> > On 11/07/07, abhishek jain <mail at webbee.biz> wrote:
> >> >
> >> Too many threads, pl. provide something meaning ful.
> >> Pl. am not offending anyone,
> >
> > don't ever ask how to remove a file with a hyphen in its name.
>
> Gracious me!  How on earth might one do that?!?!
>
> /me runs away
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:08:30 -0400
> From: Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com>
> Subject: "Too clever by half", or, "Look ma, no hands!"
> To: void at slab.org, "london.pm Perl M [ou] ngers"
>         <london.pm at london.pm.org>,      boston perl mongers <
> boston-pm at mail.pm.org>
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> http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2007/07/vistas-advanced-speech-
> recognition.html
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyLqUf4cdwc
>
>
> --
> Chris Devers
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:13:02 -0400
> From: Chris Devers <cdevers at pobox.com>
> Subject: Re: (void) "Too clever by half", or, "Look ma, no hands!"
> To: void at slab.org
> Cc: boston perl mongers <boston-pm at mail.pm.org>,        "london.pm Perl M
>         \[ou\] ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
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> Sorry if you got that more last one than once, I changed my mind
> about cross-posting it but then, err, hit send before remembering to
> delete the extraneous addresses.
>
> Still though, it's funny stuff. Really.
>
> *ahem*
>
>
> --
> Chris Devers
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:09:11 +0100
> From: "Matt Wilson" <codebrewery at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: needs some advice - is london ok for Perl jobs or other
>         cities.
> To: "London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers" <london.pm at london.pm.org>
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> On 7/11/07, Pedro Figueiredo <me at pedrofigueiredo.org> wrote:
> > On 11/07/07, abhishek jain <mail at webbee.biz> wrote:
> > > >
> > > Too many threads, pl. provide something meaning ful.
> > > Pl. am not offending anyone,
> >
> > don't ever ask how to remove a file with a hyphen in its name.
>
> Oh that's *easy*! And there's only /one/ way to do it ...
>
>
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