<div dir="ltr">thank you Brian. Does anyone happen to know of a perl regexr list. I found one but am not sure if it is right: <a href="http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/regexp.html">http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/regexp.html</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Brian Cluff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@snaptek.com" target="_blank">brian@snaptek.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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You can't rename files that way. The * on the command line gets
turned into real file names by bash before they are ever given to
the mv command so you are tell the command line to consist of any
files with a : followed by any files with an = or -.<br>
At best your command will error out, at worst it will overwrite an
existing file.<br>
What you are needing is a program that can take a pattern and rename
files with a different pattern. There are 2 that I've used, mmv and
rename. Of the 2, you probably have rename on your system already
since it gets pulled in with PERL. If not, just install the rename
package.<br>
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With rename all you have to do is:<br>
rename 's/:/-/' *<br>
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That will use a regular expression to change all the files in the
current directory that contain a : in their name to the same name
with a - replacing the :.<br>
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Be very very careful with the rename command, it can and will
clobber every file that it touches before you know it just because
you got a single character out of place.<br>
When in doubt add the -n option so that it will tell you what it's
going to do without actually doing it. Then if everything looks
good, run the command again without the -n to actually make the
changes.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Brian Cluff</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br>
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<div>On 01/30/2016 08:29 AM, Michael wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I'm sure that will fix it but what am I doing wrong
in my attempts to rename them?
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<div>$ mv *:* *=*</div>
<div>mv: target ‘*=*’ is not a directory</div>
<div>$ mv *:* *-*</div>
<div>mv: target ‘darktable-1:9Download’ is not a directory</div>
<div>$ mv *:* ./*-*</div>
<div>mv: target ‘./darktable-1:9Download’ is not a directory</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Matt
Graham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" target="_blank">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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the filesystem is probably FAT because it is a thumb
drive....<br>
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rsync: mkstemp
"/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit.CccL3o"
failed: Invalid argument (22)<br>
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It is not possible to have a ':' character in a filename on
a FAT-based filesystem. This is because that character was
used to denote which disk drive a file was on back in the
DOS days... "C:\junk\stuff.txt" and so forth.<br>
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I am not sure what these hidden files contain, or whether
they're actually important. You can pass the "--exclude
*\:*" option to rsync to tell it to not try to transfer
files that contain ':' characters, which may help.<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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