From: Gabriel Dragffy <gabe@...>
Date: 2007-09-29T03:42:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Recursing through directories


On 28 Sep 2007, at 14:17, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
>>
>> Hi Rob
>>
>> Thanks for your help.
>>
>> What I am trying to achieve is replace the slashes (/) in file/ 
>> directory names under a certain directory. So, for example, I want  
>> to recursively rename offending files that are under /Volumes, but  
>> I don't want them moved from their current directory... just  
>> renamed. What's the best way to go about that?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gabe
>
> This doesn't make sense.  There aren't slashes in the name, those  
> are separating directories along the path to the file.
>
> /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to  
> OpenStruct/another.yml
> /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to  
> OpenStruct/hash2ostruct.rb
> /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to  
> OpenStruct/openstruct.yml
> /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/rab/code/ruby/quiz/081-Hash to  
> OpenStruct/recursive.yml
>
> These files have some directories containing spaces in the name,  
> but the name of each file is just the last part (another.yml,  
> hash2ostruct.rb, openstruct.yml, recursive.yml).  If I go to my  
> home directory and rename 'code' to be 'source', I haven't changed  
> the names of the files, but I *have* changed the path needed to  
> reach them.
>
> If you really *do* have files with '/' in their names, chances are  
> you need to use a low-level utility to recover from that mess.  If  
> you're just seeing in the Mac OS X Finder that there are "slashes"  
> in the name of a file, perhaps you're seeing an artifact of the  
> Mac's filesystem.  If you open a Terminal, you'll see that there  
> the file has a ':' in the place that Finder shows you '/'.
>
> Perhaps you can find these files (like I said, see if you find them  
> properly before to operate on them) with Ruby like this:
> 	ruby -e 'puts Dir["**/*:*"]'
> But know that there are a great many files that *NEED* to contain  
> ':' created by iChat, AddressBook, Safari, and others.  (You might  
> not want to mess with anything under a Library directory ;-)


Rob, you are spot on! When I view the files in Finder they have  
slashes in the name. However, I need to backup these files to a linux  
files server using Rsync (because rsync won't copy everything but  
only the changes) but it keeps conking out with errors. If I run cp - 
rv  it fails with errors like:
cp: /Volumes/Cecil/02photography/1997_past/::PANORMANIA: Invalid  
argument
When I look at the file in Finder it has a name with slashes in it.  
My immediate thought was to automatically rename all files like this.  
What would suggest I do?

Best regards

Gabriel