@jliiagre
Recommendation to avoid hyphens and space characters in filenames did not come from the Posix "standard". They did however come from a cross-platform portability guides.
I never thought that is would happen but I am seeing more problems with filenames created on unix systems where the user thinks that they are on a Microsoft system:
The C:\ upsets my multi-platform backup software (you can never restore the file), the reverse solidus upsets scripts which process filenames (because it's a Shell special character) and the space-delimited hyphen will break any script which does not take special precautions.
I'd be interested in a further analysis of the Solaris kit filenames for colon characters and hash characters.
I tried looking for the answer online and came up with only a few semi-answers as to why file and directory names are case sensitive in Unix. Right off the bat, I'll say this doesn't bother me. But I run into tons of Windows and OpenVMS admins in my day job who go batty when they have to deal... (3 Replies)
I have files on my unix boxes that users have created with spaces.
Example: /tmp/project plan
ls -l "/tmp/project plan" works fine.
$/tmp>ls -l "/tmp/project plan"
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 0 Jan 31 12:32 /tmp/project plan
I created a file called test and put just the... (2 Replies)
Hey guys i'm creating a dos style rename script, so if a user types say q14.* as the 1st param and b14.* as the 2nd and will rename all q14 files to b14 but keep the extensions, so i've developed nearly the full script "i think", if i use echo(echo "if $1 had been renamed it would now be... (3 Replies)
I am trying to figure out a sort of Motivational line that I could
write as a short unix command... I don't know too much but something like Get everything you want in life
sudo (get everything) (you want?) (life directory)
Any ideas?
Thank You very much
Brad (4 Replies)
I have searched throught a host of threads to figure out how to rename mutiple files at once using a script.
I need to convert 200+ files from:
fKITLS_120605-0002-00001-000001.hdr to eStroop_001.hdr
fKITLS_120605-0002-00002-000002.hdr to eStroop_002.hdr
and so forth....
What is... (5 Replies)
This is on a RHEL 6 box with bash 4.1.2
I'm trying to to use grep to only find those lines containing matches that form whole words.
The -w option works fantastic unless of course that word has a hyphen.
The problem is I will get a hit on "test-group" which is a good thing, but I will also... (3 Replies)
Hello,
I have a file name in the below format and have to append the date as _$currdate.
kchik_UK_lo.txt_$currdate.
The above should be the format and I dont want to put entire filename as above in the code, but it should give me the output as the above filename.Can anyone please help... (7 Replies)
Dear all,
I have a database of compound words. I want to retain only strings with a single hyphen and identify those strings which have more than one hyphen. I am giving an example below
test-test
test-test-test
test-test-test-test-test
good-for-nothing
The regex/script should remove all... (11 Replies)
Hi,
as I mentioned in this thread(https://www.unix.com/shell-programming-and-scripting/280737-awk-function-return-permutations-n-items-out-m.html), a helpful coding style may improve overall value and support for people who come here and want to learn things the participants from unix.com have... (2 Replies)
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mkmanifest
mkmanifest(1) General Commands Manual mkmanifest(1)NAME
mkmanifest - mtools utility to create a shell script to restore UNIX file names from DOS
SYNOPSIS
mkmanifest [files]
OPTIONS
None
OPERANDS
A list of UNIX file names to be converted to DOS name format.
DESCRIPTION
The mkmanifest command creates a shell script that aids in the restore of UNIX file names that were overwritten by DOS file name restric-
tions. DOS file names are uppercase only, cannot exceed 8 character names, 3 character extensions and do not support device names or non-
alphanumeric characters.
Not all UNIX file names are supported in the DOS world. The mtools commands may have to change UNIX names to fit the DOS file name conven-
tions. Most commands provide the verbose option (-v), that displays new file names if they have been changed. The following table shows
some examples of file name conversions:
-----------------------------------------------
UNIX name DOS name Reason for the change
-----------------------------------------------
thisisatest THISISAT file name too long
file.stuff FILE.STU extension too long
prn.txt XRN.TXT PRN is a device name
.abc X.ABC null file name
hot+cold HOTXCOLD illegal character
-----------------------------------------------
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: Success. Failure.
EXAMPLES
Assume you have the following UNIX files that you want to copy to a DOS diskette using the mcopy command.
very_long_name 2.many.dots illegal: good.c prn.dev Capital
The mcopy command converts these file names to the following:
very_lon 2xmany.dot illegalx good.c xprn.dev capital
To restore the previous file names, use the mkmanifest command as follows: mkmanifest very_long_name 2.many.dots illegal:
good.c prn.dev Capital > manifest
The previous mkmanifest command line produces the following: mv very_lon very_long_name mv 2xmany.dot 2.many.dots mv illegalx illegal: mv
xprn.dev prn.dev mv capital Capital
The good.c file name did not require conversion, hence it was not included in the output.
If these files were copied from diskette to another UNIX system, and you wanted to restore the original names, retain a copy of the mani-
fest file (captured output) so that it can be used to convert the file names again.
FILES
Executable file
SEE ALSO
Commands: mcopy(1), mtools(1)mkmanifest(1)