Re: Never seen this before

On 18/02/2025 21:36, D wrote:

  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:
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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]
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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. =)

Yes. As it happened the GUI worked. The issue was many many filenames beginning with a -
Well the issue was why firefox created them in the firsts place, but well - firefox?
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