How to make timestamps on samba files set by server time, not PC time.

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at wdr.com
Thu Mar 18 21:17:16 GMT 1999


On Thu, Mar 18, 1999 at 12:23:27PM -0800, Dan Kaminsky wrote:
> > Using quotes as you did will protect you from all kinds of hard-to-track
> > problems.
> 
> Yup.
> 
> Heh, can you give me a quick sed script to replace all non-alphanumeric
> characters(not A-Z, a-z, 1-9, or space) with _ ?

LOL!

[...]
> > Hmmm, this geek must have come from a different mold than that geek then.
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > Nico
> 
> User Interface geek = geeky enough to realize what the nongeeks want to
> work with.

I get it now. And so I agree then. Users who like to embed whitespace
(or worse!) in filenames should be allowed to and they should not be
forced to suffer that which they deserve. :>

Nico


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