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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Colons in timestamp (chuck elliot)
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:12:15 +0000
From: chuck elliot <c.ell...@pobox.com>
To: motion-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Motion-user] Colons in timestamp
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If you forget to put in the quotes you will delete the whole
directory...
On 25/01/2021 8:20 pm, Dave Howorth wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 18:19:51 +0000
> chuck elliot <c.ell...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> It might be safer to stick to the usual filename 'rules' - consider
>>
>> touch 'ls;rm -R *'
> Sorry, what's the problem?
>
>> On 25/01/2021 11:47 am, Dave Howorth wrote:
>>> 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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