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    From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to All on Tue Feb 18 11:04:41 2025
    Somehow my browser tried to download every single message in my inbox.
    I stopped it but has about a thousand [blah].eml.part files in te
    browser download directory.

    Trying to use ls to display them got

    'invalid line width'

    rm crashed on a file that allegedly began with a minus, but the
    suggested workaround didn't work. (rm '-[blah].eml.part)

    Fortunately the directory was accessible by my Linux Mint GUI and I
    highlighted them and selected 'delete' and they all went away
    peacefully, if reluctantly.

    One of the few occasions the command line failed to be quicker than the
    GUI. And in fact failed altogether..

    --
    “A leader is best When people barely know he exists. Of a good leader,
    who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say,
    “We did this ourselves.”

    ― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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  • From Marc Haber@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Tue Feb 18 12:26:00 2025
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    Somehow my browser tried to download every single message in my inbox.

    A browser usually doesnt access e-mail boxes. It usually doesn't have
    the credentials to do so.

    You're obviously confusing your software and are not mentioning the
    product or the version, making it impossible to help.

    --
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Rhein-Neckar, DE | Beginning of Wisdom " |
    Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 6224 1600402

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  • From Andy Burns@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Tue Feb 18 11:16:14 2025
    The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    rm crashed on a file that allegedly began with a minus, but the
    suggested workaround didn't work. (rm '-[blah].eml.part)

    Sounds like it's too late to try now, but

    rm -- -blah.eml.part

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Marc Haber on Tue Feb 18 16:46:54 2025
    On 18/02/2025 11:26, Marc Haber wrote:
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    Somehow my browser tried to download every single message in my inbox.

    A browser usually doesnt access e-mail boxes. It usually doesn't have
    the credentials to do so.

    You're obviously confusing your software and are not mentioning the
    product or the version, making it impossible to help.

    Oh dear. That was irrelevant to the issue.

    What happened was I saved an eml file out of thunderbird and tried to
    open it with firefox, but it ended up opening EVERYTHING.

    Why, I neither know nor care. My problem was to get rid of the carnage
    it left behind

    I was not asking for help O Great One, I was mentioning and interesting behaviour set.


    --
    “But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!”

    Mary Wollstonecraft

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Lew Pitcher on Tue Feb 18 16:48:51 2025
    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.


    --
    Truth welcomes investigation because truth knows investigation will lead
    to converts. It is deception that uses all the other techniques.

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  • From Lew Pitcher@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Tue Feb 18 16:40:21 2025
    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]

    --
    Lew Pitcher
    "In Skills We Trust"

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  • From D@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Tue Feb 18 22:36:23 2025
    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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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to Lew Pitcher on Thu Feb 20 01:34:05 2025
    On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:40:21 -0000 (UTC), Lew Pitcher wrote:

    ITYM either
    rm ./-[blah].eml.part
    or
    rm -- -[blah].eml.part

    The first form is adequate in situations where the argument is actually a filename (as with rm).

    The second one is needed in situations where it is not.

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  • From Lawrence D'Oliveiro@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Thu Feb 20 01:34:31 2025
    On Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:48:51 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

    Obviously firefox had generated some utter shit filenames. But I
    couldn't identify exactly what.

    You could have tried the shell’s autocomplete to help give you some clues.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 20 10:06:49 2025
    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:

    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. =)

    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?

    --
    Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have
    guns, why should we let them have ideas?

    Josef Stalin

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