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@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
