Re: [opensuse] sanitising file names for fat32

Philippe Landau wrote:

Before making a backup of a drive to a fat32 external usb drive, i would like to rename all files containing special characters not permitted on fat32 partitions, like "?" ":" "\" and "|". I would prefer to delete question marks and transform the others to "-". What is the best way to do that ?

The best way is to NOT do it, and make a tar archive (.tar or if you want, add the -z flag to get .tar.gz). Otherwise, you're going to lose ALL of your ownership and rwxrwxrwx permissions and other special mode bits (set UID, etc.)

Kind regards Philippe

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