Re-sending, as original message never appeared on the list.
Should be between James' message and Diane's reply.
It appears hitting "Reply" sends only to original author, *not* to
list?!? That requires "Reply-All".
This seems a bit counter-intuitive, no?
James via linux wrote on 2025-11-27 15:46:
I need a command line way to rename a directory starting with ''$'\n''?
$ touch "\nbad_file"
$ mv '\nbad_file' 'good_file'
renamed '\nbad_file' -> 'good_file'
Tab completion works, where the tab completes the filename with the
leading "\n":
$ mv '\n[TAB]
which I used in the example above, where it completed to:
$ mv '\nbad_file'
Honestly, I'm kinda of the opinion that support for \n in file names is
a bad idea.
One of those "just because you can doesn't mean you should", since it
probably more frequently happens by accident, causing problems than any
beneficial intentional use cases.
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