"Invalid argument"s when attemping to create files with certain characters in filename on external drive

[Jon Grant]

Hi!

> It is a FAT32 file system with it's Windows heritage. When I try to rename 
> a file with Windows XP including one of your invalid characters, it tells 
> me that these characters are forbidden:
> 
>   \/:*?<>|

Danny, you could use a script to rename the offending files, removing 
the characters Nils higlights:

rename 
"s/\.\.*/./g;s/,/./g;s/['\`\´&\!?]//g;s/[][()]/./g;s/#/no./g;s/\+/and/g" *

I myself use a longer version, which replaces spaces and brackets as well:

rename 
"s/\(//g;s/\)//g;s/\s/_/g;s/\.\.*/./g;s/__*/_/g;s/,/./g;s/[._][._]/./g;s/\.nfo$/.txt/;s/['\`\´&\!?]//g;s/__/_/g;s/[][()]/./g;s/#/no./g;s/\+/and/g" 
*

Kind regards
Jon