I am guessing you are hitting the ' in the file name itself. If you tab complete the file name do you get something like this?
-rw-rw-r--. 1 kperrier kperrier 0 Feb 15 09:49 "file name'd with a quote in it" [kperrier@kperrier tmp]$ mv 'file name'\''d with a quote in it' If you use double quotes around the filename you don't need to escape anything. Kent On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 9:44 AM Paul Boniol <paul.bon...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am renaming (and will be moving) my MythTV files so Emby can figure them > out. However, I'm not understanding what is wrong with ones that have a > single quote in the name. One example of several: > > mv -i 1062_20180509230000.ts 'Doctor Who S03E35 The Gunfighters Don\'t > Shoot the Pianist - 2018-05-09_18-00-00.ts' > > I thought the single quote method was easier than having to escape all the > spaces, parentheses, etc that appear in the names..However I'm not figuring > out the single quotes. I tried to follow an example I found online but I > can't make sense of it. > > Paul > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS3OeX9-om9iqhUoX2opiJSTGMXA1NJ6akkRK4iJ%3DGUyMQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAL9PgS3OeX9-om9iqhUoX2opiJSTGMXA1NJ6akkRK4iJ%3DGUyMQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to nlug-talk@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nlug-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC_GDkR2q7%3DMzN%3D7As4gpnUGKiFcY0OAayp4vBw%2Bs0sbTQ%40mail.gmail.com.
