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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Never seen this before
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:04:41 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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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