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On Thursday 03 September 2009 23:56:49 Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> This is my personal working directory, under git control to carry it around |
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> between computers on a flash drive. Now stripped of git. I am reluctant |
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> to send it along, but I could send a tarball to someone who is willing to |
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> check on it. It's 300M. |
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> I moved ./mozilla out of the way. The problem persists. |
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> I found one ampersand in a file name, and changed it. No happiness. |
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> Don't know how to find a filename with a space at the end. Is there a tool |
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> to find hosed filenames? |
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Not really, it's a tricky problem - the computer doesn't know what "hosed" |
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could mean as it's stupid and doesn't assign significance to things (that's a |
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human trait). |
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ls -al *' ' |
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does the trick |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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