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Today's Topics:
1. Re: illegible mp4 files (David W. Hodgins)
2. Re: Colons in timestamp (Dave Howorth)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 01:30:45 -0500
From: "David W. Hodgins" <davidwhodg...@gmail.com>
To: "Motion discussion list" <motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] illegible mp4 files
Message-ID: <op.0xri1j0in7m...@hodgins.homeip.net>
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On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 01:08:22 -0500, tosiara <tosi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> picture_filename %v-%Y%m%d%H%M%S-%q
What is the output of the locale command?
Regards, Dave Hodgins
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:47:59 +0000
From: Dave Howorth <d...@howorth.org.uk>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Colons in timestamp
Message-ID: <20210125114759.3aa24...@acer-suse.lan>
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On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 18:11:29 -0800
Tony Ross <ynots...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/21 5:35 PM, Steve wrote:
> > I'm very surprised I found nothing on this in the archives. The
> > colons in the filenames created by Motion are a no-no on Linux
> > systems and cause much grief. I haven't found anything in the docs
> > to address this either.
> >
> > I want the timestamp just w/o the colons. Is this possible?
>
> A colon is not a filename problem in Linux. One can certainly
> configure whatever filename one desires, but I think you are
> confusing colons and semicolons:
>
> $ touch /tmp/time:stamp:00; file /tmp/time*
> /tmp/time:stamp:00: empty
Semicolons are not a problem either. You can use any character except a
forward-slash. You do need to quote filenames or escape characters
correctly though to avoid them being misinterpreted in some situations.
$ touch 'a file with:colons∧semicolons'
$ file a\ *
a file with:colons∧semicolons: empty
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