Spaces in filenames?

Spaces in filenames?

[Rob Harris]

Are spaces allowed in filenames?  I shovelled some songs to my web site
which is running apache and it is giving an error with the link yet the
names are copied absolutely by a program generating the link list.  Do I
have to modify all the files names and re-run and indeed re-upload all this
stuff?

RobH.
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Re: Spaces in filenames?

[Hart Larry]

I would think you would need to have quotes beginning before the first space, 
but really you might find a script to change those spaces to dashes.
Hart

Re: Spaces in filenames?

[Geoff Shang]

Rob Harris wrote:

> Are spaces allowed in filenames?

Absolutely!

> I shovelled some songs to my web site
> which is running apache and it is giving an error with the link yet the
> names are copied absolutely by a program generating the link list.  Do I
> have to modify all the files names and re-run and indeed re-upload all this
> stuff?

URLs cannot contain spaces.  You either need to replace them with plus 
signs (which I hardly ever see anyone do these days), or escape them as %20 
(20 hexadecimal = 32 decimal which is the character number of the space 
character).  So to post a link to a file called The Beatles - Help.mp3 you 
use something like this:

http://yourserver.com/the%20beatles%20-%20help.mp3

If this doesn't answer your question, maybe give us a filename and the URL 
for it which doesn't work.

Geoff.

Re: Spaces in filenames?

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:52:21AM EST, Rob Harris wrote:
> Are spaces allowed in filenames?

Yes, but in my opinion, they should not be. I encourage anybody using spaces in filenames to use underscores (_) instead, as these are a lot more friendly with various tools you might want to use. I've also seen filenames with spaces breaking some programs, however this is more the program's fault than the filename's.
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Re: Spaces in filenames?

[Rob Harris]

Aaah, I forgot the %20 trick, I'll modify the program accordingly.

Thanks,  RobH.
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Subject: Re: Spaces in filenames?


Rob Harris wrote:

> Are spaces allowed in filenames?

Absolutely!

> I shovelled some songs to my web site
> which is running apache and it is giving an error with the link yet the
> names are copied absolutely by a program generating the link list.  Do I
> have to modify all the files names and re-run and indeed re-upload all
this
> stuff?

URLs cannot contain spaces.  You either need to replace them with plus
signs (which I hardly ever see anyone do these days), or escape them as %20
(20 hexadecimal = 32 decimal which is the character number of the space
character).  So to post a link to a file called The Beatles - Help.mp3 you
use something like this:

http://yourserver.com/the%20beatles%20-%20help.mp3

If this doesn't answer your question, maybe give us a filename and the URL
for it which doesn't work.

Geoff.

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Re: Spaces in filenames?

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Hart Larry wrote:

> I would think you would need to have quotes beginning before the first space, 
> but really you might find a script to change those spaces to dashes.

You can use a \  to mean a space. That's
"\ "

And this command will change all spaces in file names to -...
(its recursivly too.)
find directory-destination -type f -exec rename 's/\ /-/g' '{}' +
And change -type f to -type d for directories.

Don't ask me how it works.
I don't know.

HTH,

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