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    Can you use other parts of the file to form a regex to work with it? *restoffile.avi or something like this? Commented Oct 6, 2014 at 12:52
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    In this case the remaining name was a mixture of Kanji and Katakana (japanese script), so not with ease. Commented Oct 6, 2014 at 13:08
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    Understood, just thought I'd ask. Does jimmij's answer solve it then? Also would you mind pasting a screenshot of the offending files? It would likely be helpful to others that may read this later on. Commented Oct 6, 2014 at 13:10
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    I'm trying to get it to work right now. I don't know how to post a screeny but running the following commands will give you my mock problem: touch '♫ 漢字カ' touch '♫ 漢字タ' Commented Oct 6, 2014 at 13:16
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    With zsh you can use options to have tab give you a menu from which you can select the appropriate file. Commented Oct 7, 2014 at 6:08