15 Aug
2018
15 Aug
'18
midnight
On Tuesday 14 August 2018 02:05:47 pm Pisini, John wrote:
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 2:49 PM, Thierry de Coulon
<tcoulon(a)decoulon.ch>
> However, the amazement was short-lived. All these
files have names as:
>
> Albinoni, Tomaso - 01 - Concerto No. 1 for Violin in B flat major, Op.
> 9%2F1:
> 1. Allegro.ogg
>
> And konqueror does not manage to copy them.
Linux use a \ as an escape character what that means
is when you are trying
to copy a character that Linux doesn't understand you precede it by the \
like \? this is best described by others like the description by the
following site
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/299667/how-to-deal-with-characters
-like-or-that-make-invalid-filenames
The ? is a special character that has significance in bash, You can work
with it by escaping it with \
ie:
touch test\?
will make the file:
test?
and you can move it with
mv test\? /new/loction/test\?
Edit: The same for any special character, such as .
You also need it for file names that contain spaces
this is a file
would have to be moved with:
mv this\ is\ a\ file <location>
Hi Thierry,
Use either the command line to individually copy the files or a script to copy
all of them.
Command line:
cd {to wherever one is stored}
cp Alb{Tab}
Hitting Tab will fill in as much as possible including escaping with \. Play
with it until you get the whole file name after the cp. Then add your
destination directory, or destination directory and new file name.
Bash script (Single quotes and double quotes)
#!/bin/bash
DestDir="/home/user/destdir"
mkdir "$DestDir"
cd {to top level directory where they are stored}
find -type f -name '*.ogg' | {
while read filename ; do
cp "$filename" "$DestDir"
done
}
=====
Here’s some other stuff to play with if you want cleanup the name etc while
copying it. (Back tics and double quotes)
while read filename ; do
echo "File $filename"
NameofFile=`basename "$filename"`
echo $NameofFile
FnLen=${#filename}
StartSFV=$FnLen-13
echo "${filename:2} ${filename:$StartSFV:8}"
echo "${NameofFile:0:2}"
done