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I have read carefully the answers on this post. None of them helps me. I have accidentally download a file with non-ASCII characters into my Windows desktop as shown. I cannot move it or rename the file at all.

I have already got installed Cygwin for other purposes. So I assume that I can handle it using cygwin without installing further 3 parties software on my Windows 10?

To navigate to the file's directory:

cd /cygdrive/c/Users/root/Desktop/

The file looks like this on the desktop and on the command line with ls -b command. enter image description here

In addition, once I said ls *Twitter* to list only the mentioned file name, it throws me this error:

$ ls *Twitter*
ls: cannot access ''$'\360\235\223\237\360\235\223\270\360\235\224\202\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\275\360\235\223\262\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\260'' on Twitter_ ders '


$ ls
'Yerel Disk (C).lnk'
'Yerel Disk (D).lnk'
''$'\360\235\223\237\360\235\223\270\360\235\224\202\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\275\360\235\223\262\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\260'' on Twitter_ ders '


$ mv *Twitter* newfilename.pdf
mv: cannot stat ''$'\360\235\223\237\360\235\223\270\360\235\224\202\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\275\360\235\223\262\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\260'' on Twitter_ ders '

$ mv ''$'\360\235\223\237\360\235\223\270\360\235\224\202\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\275\360\235\223\262\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\260'' on Twitter_ ders ' newfilename.pdf
mv: cannot stat ''$'\360\235\223\237\360\235\223\270\360\235\224\202\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\275\360\235\223\262\360\235\223\267\360\235\223\260'' on Twitter_ ders '

Any help?

Note: For the privacy issues, I have just removed some parts of the images.

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  • There are a lot of methods at https://superuser.com/questions/31587/how-to-force-windows-to-rename-a-file-with-a-special-character?rq=1 from using a Linux liveCD, Cygwin, using a UNC path (`\\?\C:\Users\etc`) and lots of others. – Mokubai Nov 29 '20 at 15:10
  • lol not your fault really, microsoft is such a fail even allowing such file names when file system should simply deny :D – alecxs Jan 19 '21 at 00:19

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