From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net ([207.217.120.49]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1BvQtc-0000vH-00 for ; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:30:16 -0400 Received: from h-68-166-89-140.chcgilgm.covad.net ([68.166.89.140] helo=linserver.romuald.net.eu.org) by scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1BvQtb-0000Fb-00 for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Thu, 12 Aug 2004 18:30:15 -0700 Received: (qmail 13275 invoked by uid 1023); 13 Aug 2004 01:30:20 -0000 Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:30:20 -0500 From: Gregory Nowak To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Message-ID: <20040813013020.GA13219@romuald.net.eu.org> References: <20040813011442.GA29516@lava-net.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; x-action=pgp-signed; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040813011442.GA29516@lava-net.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-PGP-Key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc Subject: Re: escaping filenames X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:30:17 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Try putting the file names in apostrophes, which should prevent the shell from messing with them. Greg On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:14:42PM -0400, Igor Gueths wrote: > Hi all. I have some mp3s here that have -'s at the beginning of the filename for some reason. Does anyone know how I would go about escaping so the -'s get ignored? Thanks! > -- > Failure is not an option, it comes bundled with your Microsoft product. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > !DSPAM:411c164a130552756314693! > > - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBHBms7s9z/XlyUyARAqBIAKChHw2cxcEmPfKEnzpV/Wv92SKKWQCgvT0i sXUK0nyPSZ6vDx5GuNPMIUM= =zYBt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----