[ale] Archiving directories/files with "compressed" mirror version

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

2008/8/14 Michael B. Trausch <mike at trausch.us>

> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 02:49 -0600, JK wrote:
> > OK Mike, I just have to know: did you just know all this off the
> > top of your head, or did you spend a couple hours goofing around
> > with bash to figure it out?  For me, it would be the "couple
> > hours goofing around" thing, which is why I rarely answer these
> > questions in such detail :-)
>
> It's something I have done several times before.  Users of GUIs *love*
> spaces and other weird characters in their filenames, and so most of the
> shell scripts that I have sitting in my $HOME/bin directory use the
> "while read" method, combined with find, to act on directory trees.
> (For example, I have a shell script that takes an entire directory tree
> and normalizes the names to lowercase that does it the same way.)



I like changing all the names to use "_" instead of " " on windows
machines...
smbmount then a cron job to clean things up...

OK. So it _does_ sound a bit like BOFH tactics but it also seems to have a
bit of speed-up in the file indexing process (no measurements just a
perception).


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