thank you Brian. Does anyone happen to know of a perl regexr list. I found
one but am not sure if it is right:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/regexp.html
On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Brian Cluff <
brian@snaptek.com> wrote:
> 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 -.
> At best your command will error out, at worst it will overwrite an
> existing file.
> 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.
>
> With rename all you have to do is:
> rename 's/:/-/' *
>
> 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 :.
>
> 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.
> 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.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
>
> On 01/30/2016 08:29 AM, Michael wrote:
>
> I'm sure that will fix it but what am I doing wrong in my attempts to
> rename them?
>
> $ mv *:* *=*
> mv: target ‘*=*’ is not a directory
> $ mv *:* *-*
> mv: target ‘darktable-1:9Download’ is not a directory
> $ mv *:* ./*-*
> mv: target ‘./darktable-1:9Download’ is not a directory
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:29 AM, Matt Graham <mhgraham@crow202.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael < <bmike1@gmail.com>
>> bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> the filesystem is probably FAT because it is a thumb drive....
>>> rsync: mkstemp
>>> "/media/bmike1/RedSanDisk/Documents/Education/Darktable/.darktable-1:10WaterLilyEdit.CccL3o"
>>> failed: Invalid argument (22)
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
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