Re: Invalid argument (22) and rsync

>     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 <mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org>> wrote:

>>         On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael <bmike1@gmail.com
>>         <mailto: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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