I've got one but I never bother with it really.
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esse - Apr 03, 2007 9:10:44 am PDT #1135 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 11:27:18 am PDT #1136 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I have a bunch of video files that I've just been informed need to use "naming conventions to work within a Unix server environment"
Can someone point me to a simple breakdown of what such naming conventions would consist of?
Gudanov - Apr 03, 2007 11:31:08 am PDT #1137 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I dunno. All lower case and with underscores instead of spaces?
Ginger - Apr 03, 2007 11:48:30 am PDT #1138 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
That's all I could think of. Unix is case sensitive and doesn't like spaces.
Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 11:49:49 am PDT #1139 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Cool. As long as that's all it is, I'm good.
tommyrot - Apr 03, 2007 11:55:22 am PDT #1140 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Well, there are a lot of non-alphanumeric characters you can't use. Anyone know which ones you can use? Underscore and period, of course....
Ginger - Apr 03, 2007 12:09:39 pm PDT #1141 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Oh, yeah. IIRC, underscore and period are pretty much it. No ', ", !, @, #, %,!, ?, etc.
Jessica - Apr 03, 2007 12:12:19 pm PDT #1142 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Are hyphens okay, or will we need to change them all to underscores?
Gudanov - Apr 03, 2007 12:12:50 pm PDT #1143 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping
I think dash '-' is pretty safe too, but underscore when in doubt is a pretty good policy. Lots of filesystems on UNIX can handle all kinds of weird characters but who knows what file system will be in use.
X-post: I think you'll be safe with hyphens.
Tom Scola - Apr 03, 2007 12:30:30 pm PDT #1144 of 25496
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Technically, the only character that isn't legal in a Unix filename is the forward slash "/" character. Spaces and other metacharacters make things more difficult, and they can trip you up, but it's possible to use them.