<p>Seems to work from the command line:<br>
"move test.txt .txt"</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 15, 2011 3:09 PM, "David Pembrook" <<a href="mailto:david@pembrook.net">david@pembrook.net</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> <br>>>> An FTP client would let you rename it. Just browse the local drive<br>
>>> and rename it. Then you can stay in the gui and follow their<br>>>> instructions. I just tried it with filezilla, sure enough that<br>>>> works.<br>>> Those ideas make it sound like Rube Goldberg was an engineer for<br>
>> Microsoft. Use an external machine over a network to rename a local<br>>> file. Perhaps from the Windows machine in question one could ssh into<br>>> the Linux box and ftp back to the Windows machine to rename the file.<br>
>><br>>> Heh.<br>> no, i was browsing the local files with filezilla, I didn't bother <br>> connecting anywhere... i just was sure it would let me as long as the <br>> file system did.<br>> <br>
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