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"Carol Anne" the beast is calling
"Carol Anne, Carol Anne" she can hear souls sing
"Carol Anne" the beast it needs you
Here it comes, here it comes
Reaching out somewhere from inside your TV
 
I had to deal with renaming unix volumes in terminal with special characters today, and it made me cry.
 
I may not be 100% helpful as I'm still learning linux myself and not that familiar with unix, but I will try. What problems did you have?
 
Oh, the guy named his drive Dave's Backup Drive, but it came out as Dave???s Backup Drive
But when we tried to rename it (sudo mv /Dave???s Backup Drive /Backup) it came back with an error.  We had to end up...typing it out with slashes and shit.
 
LooseCannon said:
Oh, the guy named his drive Dave's Backup Drive, but it came out as Dave???s Backup Drive
But when we tried to rename it (sudo mv /Dave???s Backup Drive /Backup) it came back with an error.  We had to end up...typing it out with slashes and shit.
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Just out of curiosity, did you try to enclose Dave's Backup Drive in double quotes to rename it?
 
Just checking. I tried to rename some files and volumes with some special characters to see if I could get an error, but it seemed to work OK. I know Linux replaces a space in a file name with "/ ", is that what you had to do in the end?
 
The special characters I tried to deal with was, for example, the o in Motorhead. I had the mv command in terminal as:

mv 01_Mot�rhead_The\ Best\ of\ Mot�rhead\ -\ Disc\ 2_Iron\ Fist.mp3 Test2.mp3
and
mv "01_Mot�rhead_The Best of Mot�rhead - Disc 2_Iron Fist.mp3" Test3.mp3

Rather then type out the � I used the tab key to find the file for me (i.e. I typed 01_Mot and then the tab key and I got the above). Both worked OK.




By the way, I have no idea how everyone else will see the above �. :D
 
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