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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] =tagging-method and non-portable filenames
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Ethan Benson |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] =tagging-method and non-portable filenames |
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Thu, 4 Sep 2003 00:28:49 -0800 |
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:23:02AM -0500, Joe Osborn wrote:
>
> I'm running into a problem, however, which is inconveniencing me. Some
> changes I make to =tagging-method's regexen for the different file
> types(Excluded, Precious, Junk, Backup) are effective and tla inventory
> will give me a proper list by the types given. However, changes to
> Unrecognized do nothing, and Source seems ineffective too. While it
> may be I'm writing bad regex, my goal is to allow non-portable file
> names, as a lot of mine are, to be put under version control as
> sources. The following line:
>
> source ^([_=a-zA-Z0-9[:space:][:punct:]].*)$
>
> is either malformed or ineffective. Which is it? File names like "3rd
> Edition, Revised" and "Ice Age" still fall into the Unrecognized
> section with this regex, even though
whitespace in filenames is absolutly forbidden in arch. removing this
restriction is not at trivial as you think. reference the list archives.
> find . [_=a-zA-Z0-9[:space:][:punct:]].*
>
> works fine. Is the limitation on the usage of non-portable file names
> a basic assumption of Arch? Is there a workaround? Am I just a fool?
>
> This is equally not-working in larch and tla. Any suggestions?
rename your files to not include whitespace.
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Ethan Benson
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