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*&^.jpg is really the name of the file?

If so, when you have control characters in a filename, you have to treat it differently. You'll have to move it through the command line. Open a console and type this (anything inside <<>>, you don't type, they are actions or my comments):

 

su <<hit enter>>

<<type your root password...you won't see it being typed...hit enter>>

mv '*&^.jpg' /usr/share/wallpaper

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Here's a free tip. The main directories you will find base commands like that are /bin /sbin /usr/bin or /usr/sbin, so when I am perplexed, I whip out my favorite command and start alphabetically (my command prompt looks different from yours because I have customized it. Hope it doesn't confuse you.):

 

root@laptop.mdk /usr/src 2143 28-Feb-05

> cd /bin

root@laptop.mdk /bin 2143 28-Feb-05

> whatis * | grep "move"                               

cut                  (1)  - remove sections from each line of files

mv                  (1)  - move (rename) files

rm                  (1)  - remove files or directories

rmdir                (1)  - remove empty directories

unlink              (1)  - call the unlink function to remove the specified file

root@laptop.mdk /bin 2143 28-Feb-05

> cd /sbin

root@laptop.mdk /sbin 2143 28-Feb-05

> whatis * | grep "move"

kernel_remove_initrd: nothing appropriate

modprobe [modprobe-25] (8)  - program to add and remove modules from the Linux Kernel

remove-from-netprofile: nothing appropriate

rmmod [rmmod-25]    (8)  - simple program to remove a module from the Linux Kernel

root@laptop.mdk /sbin 2143 28-Feb-05

> cd /usr/bin

root@laptop.mdk /usr/bin 2143 28-Feb-05

> whatis * | grep "move"

grep: Invalid regular expression

grep: Invalid regular expression

colrm                (1)  - remove columns from a file

cut                  (1)  - remove sections from each line of files

drakrpm-remove: nothing appropriate

faxrm                (1)  - remove a job or document from a server

File::Path          (3pm)  - create or remove directory trees

gnome-session-remove: nothing appropriate

ipcrm                (8)  - remove a message queue, semaphore set or shared memory id

metaflac            (1)  - program to list, add, remove, or edit metadata in one or more FLAC files

mmove                (1)  - move or rename an MSDOS file or subdirectory

mrd                  (1)  - remove an MSDOS subdirectory

pamdeinterlace      (1)  - remove ever other row from a PAM/PNM image

psfstriptable        (1)  - remove the embedded Unicode character table from a console font

removekdesysmenu.pl: nothing appropriate

removekdesysmenu-simplified.pl: nothing appropriate

rpmdrake-remove: nothing appropriate

scrollkeeper-update  (8)  - identify new, modified, or removed OMF files and update the scrollkeeper databases

uniq                (1)  - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file

root@laptop.mdk /usr/bin 2143 28-Feb-05

> cd /usr/sbin

root@laptop.mdk /usr/sbin 2143 28-Feb-05

> whatis * | grep "move"

lpmove              (8)  - move a job to a new destination

rpmdrake-remove: nothing appropriate

tmpwatch            (8)  - removes files which haven't been accessed for a period of time

urpmi.removemedia [urpmi] (8)  - remove a rpm media from the known medias of urpmi

urpmi.removemedia [urpmi] (8)  - remove a rpm media from the known medias of urpmi

 

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Edited by Steve Scrimpshire
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Something interested you have customized. I will compare those later soon.... this gives me a little perplexed.... I am new with Linux and about to throw all windows out soon... But I think this will give me benefits later on.

 

Hope you mind if I save this on my file and compare it later.... Thanks again...

 

:thanks:

 

 

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