Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-12 Thread trebol
Well, after reading a lot of boring documentation about a file system I practically never use created by a company whose products I'm allergic to, I've arrived at the conclusion that in a posix environment, all unicode characters except '/' and '\0' must be allowed. My advice for the

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-11 Thread Michael Parson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, trebol wrote: Hello Michael. The only thing you are achieving using find in this way, is passing the correct name to cp. If you have problems with your shell, or your environment (terminal, etc...) passing some characters to your commands, this may be useful for you.

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-10 Thread trebol
Hello Michael. The only thing you are achieving using find in this way, is passing the correct name to cp. If you have problems with your shell, or your environment (terminal, etc...) passing some characters to your commands, this may be useful for you. But that is not the problem I'm talking

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-10 Thread Michael Parson
On 2017-11-10 04:21, trebol wrote: Hello, I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me how to copy a file from a ntfs partition with a colon in its name. This character is used to get files attributes, and I can't find a way to avoid it. I don't have any NTFS stuff mounted on NetBSD, but I

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-10 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:59:22AM +, Stephen Borrill wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, trebol wrote: > > Well, ':' it seems to allowed. From > > > > https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx > > > > [...] In both NTFS and FAT file systems, the special file

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-10 Thread Stephen Borrill
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, trebol wrote: Well, ':' it seems to allowed. From https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx [...] In both NTFS and FAT file systems, the special file name characters are: '\', '/', '.', '?', and '*' [...] Windows 7 and 10 disagree,

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-10 Thread trebol
Well, ':' it seems to allowed. From https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd317748(v=vs.85).aspx [...] In both NTFS and FAT file systems, the special file name characters are: '\', '/', '.', '?', and '*' [...] On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, trebol wrote: On Fri, 10 Nov 2017,

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-10 Thread trebol
On Fri, 10 Nov 2017, Martin Husemann wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:21:51AM +, trebol wrote: Hello, I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me how to copy a file from a ntfs partition with a colon in its name. This character is used to get files attributes, and I can't find a way to

Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

2017-11-10 Thread Martin Husemann
On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 10:21:51AM +, trebol wrote: > Hello, > > I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me how to copy a file from a ntfs > partition with a colon in its name. This character is used to get files > attributes, and I can't find a way to avoid it. I may remember wrong, but ":"