Re: [Info-mtools] something like mkmanifest for long names?

[Paul Fox]

alain wrote:
 > Unfortunately, mkmanifest is a a remainder of a time when neither Windows
 > nor mtools supported any long file names, and thus only attempts to map
 > every filename to a short 8+3 name.
 > 
 > Normally mkmanifest wouldn't be needed any more for long file names ...
 > except for special characters, as you noticed.
 > 
 > No replacement exists yet, but as the algorithm is rather simple (replace
 > all dodgy characters with _), it should be easy to write a simple script.

thanks -- yes, shortly after writing i realized exactly how simply the
rename is.  

i was especially pleased when i remembered that bash supports
pattern replacement on variables.  this seems to work, so far:

    renamepat='[\" \*:<>?\\|]'
    newname=${oldname//$renamepat/_}

paul
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