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Re: [Info-mtools] something like mkmanifest for long names?
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Paul Fox |
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Re: [Info-mtools] something like mkmanifest for long names? |
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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:40:22 -0400 |
alain wrote:
> Unfortunately, mkmanifest is a a remainder of a time when neither Windows
> nor mtools supported any long file names, and thus only attempts to map
> every filename to a short 8+3 name.
>
> Normally mkmanifest wouldn't be needed any more for long file names ...
> except for special characters, as you noticed.
>
> No replacement exists yet, but as the algorithm is rather simple (replace
> all dodgy characters with _), it should be easy to write a simple script.
thanks -- yes, shortly after writing i realized exactly how simply the
rename is.
i was especially pleased when i remembered that bash supports
pattern replacement on variables. this seems to work, so far:
renamepat='[\" \*:<>?\\|]'
newname=${oldname//$renamepat/_}
paul
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