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Re: Rename nested folders
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Re: Rename nested folders


  • Subject: Re: Rename nested folders
  • From: Ed Stockly <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:09:41 -0700


Me>>>It sounds like they are simply folders with forward slashes in their names.

Mark>>Except there's nothing "simple" about that, really. See, I don't know
of any file system outside of classic Mac OS HFS that allows slashes
in filenames.

Hmmm, I'm on OS X 10.4.1.1 and I can use slashes in file names.

Mark>>Not UNIX, not Windows, not Amiga, not VMS . . . I
mean, a ZIP file is just that: a file; as long as you honor the format
spec you can write arbitrary bytes  to it to construct whatever sort
of filename you want.  But normally such an archive is created out of
actual files that already exist in a file system somewhere, so I had
just blithely assumed that the filenames themselves wouldn't really
have slashes.

My guess is that the folders are being created with the forward slashes on OS X and Mark is unzipping them using the shell or on a unix system and that process is converting the forward slashes to colons, or, possibly returning posix paths, which also converts forward slashes to colons.


The whole point of this thread, I'm guessing, is to replace the problematic forward slashes with hyphens, which are kosher on all the operating systems that Mark mentioned.



ES
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