I had tried tab completing a file name that I changed manually. Earlier it didn't tab complete, but it does now.(maybe I mistyped something). Yes, that's what I get. And interesting on the double quotes. There are only a few that have " in them, so that's a much more manageable option.
Thank you! Paul On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 9:52 AM Kent Perrier <kent.perr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CA%2B6_KC_GDkR2q7%3DMzN%3D7As4gpnUGKiFcY0OAayp4vBw%2Bs0sbTQ%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/CAL9PgS1o%3DfM1R%3DO-%3D-1E3ytAw-7sUDUFXaVbatK8nq7vd2Vc3g%40mail.gmail.com.
