Having problems with files that have the ':' character

[Mike Fedyk]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 08:49:38PM +0100, M?rio Gamito wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Some of the files on my linux box have the character ':' in their name.
> > Viewing them over the network via smb, samba seems to replace the ':' with
> > a '~'.
> I having that very same problem.
> I run a network of abot 100 computers, half win98 half Macs.
> Well it seems that Macs in particular cause that problem and when it comes to 
> share documents between computers using a common share, somtimes it's a mess.
> 
> Since it seems there is no remedy to recover from the character ':' is there 
> a way to prevent Samba to use it?
> 
When converting from Macs I had to convert the 3 char code that netatalk
uses to encode "/" into ":fd" or something into "-" with a script.

Windows also has trouble with files ending with spaces, though I didn't make
a script that fixed that...

I'm trying different mangling options that may help....

Oh, crap.  Samba 2.0.7 doesn't have any options that let you replace
characters in the middle of a name with something else...

You'll have to rename the files like I did, sorry.  

I've attached the two scripts that I used, and commented them with a little
explanation.  Use them with caution, I may have made an error, though I used
them myself... :)

Mike
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#!/bin/sh

# This script calls the script fix_mac_file_codes on all files it finds 
# the code for "/" created by netatalk.

#. ~/bin/fix_mac_file_codes
#set -x
count=1
while [ true ]; do
  find -maxdepth $count  -iname "*:2f*" -exec fix_mac_file_codes "{}" ";"
  [ -z "`find -mindepth $count -maxdepth $(( $count + 1 ))`" ] && break
  count=$(( $count + 1 ))
done

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#!/bin/sh

#This script will replace codes used in netatalk to deal with "/" and "*" or
# the like in filenames.  It is meant to be called from find with -exec
# the script ren_mac_file_codes does exactly that, and starts on parent directories
# first so that if a directory is renamed it will be followed with the new name 
# after the move...

before="$@"
after="`echo $before|sed 's/:2f/-/g'|sed 's/*/-/g'`"
echo renaming $before to...
echo "     $after"
mv "$before" "$after"