Re: Never seen this before

From	D <nospam@example.net>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: Never seen this before
Date	2025-02-18 22:36 +0100
Organization	i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
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On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 18/02/2025 16:40, Lew Pitcher wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:04:41 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> Somehow my browser tried to download every single message in my inbox.
>> [snip]
>> 
>>> rm crashed on a file that allegedly began with a minus, but the
>>> suggested workaround didn't work. (rm '-[blah].eml.part)
>> 
>> ITYM either
>>    rm ./-[blah].eml.part
>> or
>>    rm -- -[blah].eml.part
>> 
>> [snip]
>> 
> I tried the first one, Didnt work.
> Obviously firefox had generated some utter shit filenames. But I couldn't 
> identify exactly what.

One of my outs in case of this, is to use midnight commander. Runs very 
well in the terminal, and possible to use over ssh as well. =)

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Never seen this before The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-18 11:04 +0000
  Re: Never seen this before Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2025-02-18 11:16 +0000
  Re: Never seen this before Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-02-18 12:26 +0100
    Re: Never seen this before The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-18 16:46 +0000
  Re: Never seen this before Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2025-02-18 16:40 +0000
    Re: Never seen this before The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-18 16:48 +0000
      Re: Never seen this before D <nospam@example.net> - 2025-02-18 22:36 +0100
        Re: Never seen this before The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-20 10:06 +0000
      Re: Never seen this before Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-20 01:34 +0000
    Re: Never seen this before Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-02-20 01:34 +0000

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