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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Never seen this before
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:48:51 +0000
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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.


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