Andrew, an attempt to be a little clearer, and answer some of your
questions:
No search program would find a file with a question mark on a windows
partition as FAT doesn't support it (don't know about NTFS). But, there
is a file with a question mark on an ext3 partition, and if you attempt
to copy that file to a FAT partition, then Ubuntu gives you an error...
this is because ext3 does support question marks in file names, but FAT
doesn't. This is likely to be a problem for more users, as most USB
sticks or external hard drives will probably be formatted with FAT
rather than ext3.
Finding all the files on the ext3 partition that contain characters that
are forbidden on a FAT partition means searching for files containing
the character '?' on the ext3 partition, so that the file names can be
changed.
I am using Gutsy, and in Gutsy the character '?' gets treated as a
wildcard rather than as a character (in the Places-Search for Files
applet)... and the regular expression '\?' or '*\?*' doesn't work - the
'?' is still treated as a wildcard. This is not the case with the
command line program 'find', which does find files the character '?'
using the syntax of \?.
You mention that you've not had the same problem searching in Hardy -
are you *just* searching for the character '?'... because if you are
searching for something else as well, then it's not a proper test, for
example:
with filename: somefile?.txt
My Gutsy Search for Files will *not* find this file when I search for: '?',
'\?', '*\?*', 'file?'
It *will* find this file when I search for: 'file', '*file?*', and '*?*' (but
this last one returns *every* file)
These tests show that the character '?' is *always* treated as a
wildcard in the Gutsy Search for Files applet.
If you get different results in Hardy - and are able to find files
*because* they contain the character '?', then the problem may have been
fixed upstream in Gnome. If not, then this is still a bug in Hardy.
Hope that helps.
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Search for Files Gnome applet cannot search for question marks
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