03-23-2007
First of all, ntrans doesn't work like that. "ntrans \%3A \:" will convert % to : and delete any occurence of 3 and A. That might collapse into what you want if the only 3 and A characters happen to always follow a : but it seems like a dangerous way to do things. From the man page:
Quote:
ntrans [inchars [outchars]]
...
If the character's position in inchars is longer than the length of outchars, the character is deleted from the file name.
And no, hardfeed is not going to work with ntrans. hardfeed needs to send a string like "get $file" to the ftp coprocess. Then it waits until the file arrives by testing if $file exists. Once the file arrives, it may optionally do a "chmod $mode $file" to transfer the mode. Another option is retrieve the file only if the remote file is newer than the local file. All of this stuff is based on file names.
You could use hardfeed to retrieve the files, then run another script to rename them. There are many example of renaming scripts on this site and you can find them with our search function. But remember that if you rename the files, you won't be able to run hardfeed again to just retrieve changed files. hardfeed will think that any renamed files are missing.
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