Comments on: How To Remove Files and Directories with Special Characters

By: Show disk size in Unix | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX

Show disk size in Unix | UNIX Tutorial: Learn UNIX — Mon, 11 May 2009 09:05:32 +0000

[...] Deleting files and directories with special characters in their names [...]

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:53:47 +0000

Boy, was I glad the first time (a few years back) I learned about this!

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:32:02 +0000

Thanks – pesky little bugger !

By: Gleb Reys

Gleb Reys — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:28:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing the tip!

By: Wayne Hammond

Wayne Hammond — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:51:09 +0000

To remove a leading dash from a filename, use the "rename" command like this:
rename – "" *
The first character is what you want to replace, the "" is an empty string (nothing) and the * is the files to process (all of them in the directory). Works really quickly, did about 2500 files in a few seconds!