a *very* odd question especially for me. Janina Sajka <janina at rednote.net> wrote

[Willem van der Walt]

Hi,
I seem to recall that one can instruct abcde to at least replace the 
spaces with underlines, but those slashes would need editing.
Regards, /Willem


On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hi, Willem:
>
> Yes, very horible names. I had the choice of editing before sending
> abcde on its way to rip. Truth be told, I didn't look at them very
> closely at that point.
>
> I think I'm actually going to take a different tack when I get around to
> fixing this rip. I'm going to create directories for composer and the
> particular work's title, e.g. Symphony3. Then I can just use digits and
> the tempo marking for the filenames themselves.
>
> It matters not a wit to me that all these came off a particular cd. To
> my mind, that's just an artifact of legacy media delivery. The only
> grouping that matters to me is the grouping for each work under the
> directory of each composer.
>
> This, of course, was more than I could do profitably at the stage abcde
> offered names for me to edit.
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> Janina
>
> Willem van der Walt writes:
>> What horrible names!
>> If you have the names in a file,
>> You might need to put backslashes before the slashes first.
>> You could try to use the rename command if you actually have these files in
>> a directory, that is if detox does not come to your rescue.
>> rename s'|/|_|'g *
>> HTH, Willem
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Joel Roth wrote:
>>
>>> Janina Sajka wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So, you're proposing I can read each line from this file, enclose the
>>>> string in quotes and do a mv? Does that work for you? It doesn't for me.
>>>> If I try the very first track, I get a "no such file or directory"
>>>> error.
>>>
>>>> 1: Saint-Saëns  / Symphony No.3 Organ - 1. Adagio - Allegro Moderato
>>>
>>> Slashes can't appear in filenames under unices.
>>>
>>>> Janina
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
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