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[Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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