Invalid argument (22) and rsync

[Michael]

you know... the reason I was doubting that page is because it says that  \s
matches any white space and in the example that worked:

rename 's/:/-/' *

looks to me as if it is saying to search for a blank space followed by a
colon and then (i guess) the next forward slash tells it to replace it with
a dash. Then the final '\' closes the statement and that too is a tatement
surrounded by apostrapheses.
Is that right?

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> Regular expressions is a pretty big topic.  It's not super easy like
> globing (like the * you've been using in bash) which you can get the idea
> from the 544 page book (
> http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Regular-Expressions-Jeffrey-Friedl/dp/0596528124/
> ) that can be bought on regular expressions.  The equivalent book on
> globing would be a pamphlet.
>
> That being said, the basics aren't too hard to learn, but you have to keep
> in mind that they are fairly different, and don't always act like what you
> would think.
>
> There are a ton of howtos out there and they take a lot of different
> approaches to explaining thing, I would just search google for them until
> you find one that speaks to you.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 01/30/2016 11:54 AM, Michael wrote:
>
> 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/%7Ejkorpela/perl/regexp.html>
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/perl/regexp.html
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 11:43 AM, Brian Cluff <brian at 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 at crow202.org>
>> mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 6:45 PM, Michael < <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>> 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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