‘Well it’s only passing mv a list of–’ yeah yeah yeah, I know, and that’s why I’m calling bullshit. It should be massively harder to execute filenames. Even if 1970s decisions make that the eternal hideous default: the lack of any idiot-proof standard workaround is incomprehensible.

StackOverflow’s full of competing one-liners and people pointing out how each one is considered harmful. The least-skeezy options use exec. That sentence should make anyone recoil in horror.

This is not a filename problem. This is a tool problem. If a single printable character is going to silently expand into a list of names, then for god’s sake, having it put each name in quotes should be fucking trivial.

  • mindbleachOP
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    9 months ago

    bash: alias: mv: not found

    printf %s\\n *.jpg is just a list of filenames on newlines. There’s 75,000 of them. You’ll have to take my word for it.

    Fortunately, GenderNeutralBro’s aside about using ./* instead of * works as expected. Could have been files beginning with _-. None begin with -, exactly.