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Old 08-Jul-2009, 09:08
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Default Re: VFAT USB-KEY mounted Issue

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Originally Posted by FeatherMonkey
I believe Fat won't let you as it is an invalid character, apparently
you cant use : or ? going on this ...

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ay/115345.html

You would have to do a rename something like .. or use a gui rename
think KRename

Code:
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for file in *; do mv "$file" $(echo $file | sed -e 's/+\|?/_/g');
done --------------------


@malcomlewis I found I could cp on ext3 using :

Hi
I knew there was a reason I avoided fat filesystems......

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