[AusNOG] Synology bulk replace characters

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2016-02-24 at 15:17 +1100, Luke Thompson wrote:
> an environment change. Renames to remove the suspect characters can 
> [...]
> Has anyone had a similar experience and, if so, what was the workaround?

Haven't had that exact issue, but a technique I've used in the past is
to make a hard link to a file, giving a more suitable name, then delete
the original file. Very important NOT to make a symbolic link, or your
file data will be deleted.

Kinda requires that deletion of the illegal name is possible; you may
have to use a wildcard.

Would need to do this on the command line via ssh access to the NAS. How
are you locating the files?

Regards, K.


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