Re: : in file's name using mount_ntfs (not fuse)

[Michael Parson <mparson%bl.org@localhost>]

On 2017-11-10 04:21, trebol wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd appreciate it if someone could tell me how to copy a file from a
> ntfs partition with a colon in its name. This character is used to get
> files attributes, and I can't find a way to avoid it.

I don't have any NTFS stuff mounted on NetBSD, but I tried this on my 
laptop running Linux (Dual-boots Win 10, windows partition is mounted on 
/windows):

Use 'ls -li' to get the inode of the file (first column)

Then use 'find . -maxdepth 1 -inum $inode -exec cp {} 
/tmp/new_filename.ext \;'

You can also use this to rename or remove files with chars that aren't 
supposed to exist in filenames or aren't otherwise easily typeable.

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Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
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