Invalid argument (22) and rsync

[Michael]

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 at crow202.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael <bmike1 at 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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