i have a cd of pdf and chm documents that i transfered from my windows xp box. i transfered the files to my linux box (ubuntu hardy). unfortunately, i used to be a windows GUI only user so the use of spaces and "( )" and underscores. now that i use linux, ive been using CLI for using and moving/coping files. when i tried to view a .chm file, i had installed chmsee for those files, i got problems saying that the use of "(" isnt allowed. is there anyway in the terminal to use those files in such a fashion like, for example, the file "Linux file (2005).chm", and use "mv" the change the name without having to use GUI. something like this:
"mv Linux file (2005).chm Linux_file_2005.chm"
is this possible???
You just need to escape or double quote the special characters on the command line. In my experience, Bash does this for you automatically with tab completion, although there are some minor glitches.
The only characters you absolutely cannot use in a file name are slash (because it's used to separate directories) and ASCII null (because it's used internally to terminate strings).
Here's a quick attempt at batch rename.
This might be even a little bit too conservative in what characters it will accept in a file name, but at least it's a start.
If you installed chmsee from an Ubuntu repository, it should have pulled in any packages it depends on.
If you just want the library, I guess you should linstall libxul0d, although it's of course somewhat likely that the exact version is not what chmsee wants.
(XUL is the Mozilla toolkit, XULrunner is basically Mozilla without the actual browser -- can be useful for running Chatzilla as a separate process, for example.)
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