[AusNOG] Synology bulk replace characters

[Luke Thompson]

Karl,

Hadn't considered making hard links to the files. Wildcards definitely a 
valid point, however given we're talking thousands of files and folders, 
only few with the BOM in the same position, we'd likely need to be more 
specific (ie, characters that are not alphanumeric, exclude basics, etc).

Files are being located via SSH. System locates the files and fails to 
rename as it cannot access the file due to the illegal characters.

Regards,

Luke Thompson
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On 24/02/2016 3:37 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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.
>
>