On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 06:59:00PM -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote:
> I have a bunch of cdroms containing mp3's that I want to copy from the
> cdrom to a vfat partition on a mounted drive on my network. For
> completeness let me say that the drive is a hard drive in an enclosure
> connected via usb. Using a simple cp command I get error messages, not
> sure what they mean. Here is an example:
>
> keith@t520:~/evesdb4/mp3/misc$cp -vr /media/cdrom0/*.mp3 ./
> `/media/cdrom0/01 Zephyr & I.mp3' -> `./01 Zephyr & I.mp3'
> cp: reading `/media/cdrom0/01 Zephyr & I.mp3': Input/output error
> cp: failed to extend `./01 Zephyr & I.mp3': Input/output error
> `/media/cdrom0/01 All I Want To Do.mp3' -> `./01 All I Want To Do.mp3'
> cp: reading `/media/cdrom0/01 All I Want To Do.mp3': Input/output error
> cp: failed to extend `./01 All I Want To Do.mp3': Input/output error
>
I would try copying a few files one-by-one to make sure you know for sure which
files cp is choking on. You might also try using rsync, to see if it
handles things any differently.
Silly question: does vfat support spaces in filenames? I recall
something about that feature, a lawsuit by Microsoft, and a patch by
Andrew Tridgell...
> I am assuming (maybe incorrectly) that the problem has to do with the
> spaces and special characters in the filenames.
>
> Maybe a correct use of quotes would help the globbing problem?
>
> But my preference would be to use a command syntax or small script that
> would replace all the non-aphanumeric characters with an underscore as
> well as change the case to all lower case during the copy process.
>
> I've looked around and can find lots of suggestions using some combination
> of rename, awk, sed, find, etc but I can't seem to apply them to my
> situation because I can't write to the cdrom and because I'm dealing with
> a vfat partition, not ext. I have thousands of these mp3's. And they are
> in multiple layers of subdirectories.
>
I use rename and qmv like this:
# Rename files all lowercase, with underscores instead of spaces:
rename 'y/A-Z,\ /a-z,_/' *.mp3
# Rename files all lowercase, with underscores instead of spaces,
# commas, or parentheses:
rename 'y/A-Z,[\ \,\(\)]/a-z,_/' *.mp3
qmv -f do *.mp3
qmv opens up the filenames in an editor and you can find/replace
characters. It's not very automated, but still useful.
For rename, maybe you can come up with a command that replaces
everything that is not a-z or A-Z or a number, with an underscore. This
doesn't work, but maybe someone could correct it:
rename 'y/[!(A-Z),!(a-z),!(0-9)]/_/' *.mp3
Alternatively you could just specify every special character that you
can think of and change it to an underscore:
rename 'y/[\ \,\(\)\+\&\!\@\#\$\%\^\=\<\>\?\/\"\'\{\}\[\]\:\;\~\`]/_/' *.mp3
-Rob
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