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an operator saved a file with a ':' in it, creating a file stream (new concept to me). I'm wondering if anyone with wisdom can point me to know how to get the data from that file piped into another file.. i.e. he saved as "wrong file: rest of wrong file title.wmv"

so first, can this be salvaged in ubuntu? ..how? ..

I figure I'd need the orig. hdd, maybe..:

Code:
cat "wrong file: rest of wrong file title.wmv" | cat > rightFile.wmv

dunno.. Am I grasping, or am I on right track?

this is for work, so I'm not at liberty to tinker & possibly mess it up more than it is.. the encoder's log also lists ":$DATA" after the rest of the file after the colon

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