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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by mwcampbell on Thursday November 11, 2021 @10:49AM (#29189218)
My favorite filename special character bug was when I implemented CD ripping in 2005, and one of our beta testers ripped a CD with a song called "Have You Ever?". My code wasn't prepared to filter out the question mark on Windows.
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Re:I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old by mixmastamyk on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:36PM (#29192138)
I just hit the one where an album folder ends in a period. Rsync copies every time because the period is dropped by the filesystem silently. :-/
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