[MC filemanager] Skips files with (') on their name (Solved)

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i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 7:54 pm

Midnight commander silently skips directories with this char on their names: [']. For example, if I select these directories to copy them to another drive:

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Orbital - CD - '91
Orbital - Diversions
Orbital - IN SIDES
Orbital - ORB'S ADVENTURES BEYOND THE ULTRAWORLD
Orbital - PEEL SESSIONS

Then only the second, third and fith directories are copied, the other are silently skipped. I just noticed then today while copying some music files, so it might have happened in the past (and thanks to that I am going to have to revise a lot of work because, for sure, more files have been left behind on the process until I noticed this).
The funny thing is that bash lists these files this way:

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/mnt/cdrw/Orbital - CD - ?91
/mnt/cdrw/Orbital - Diversions
/mnt/cdrw/Orbital - IN SIDES
/mnt/cdrw/Orbital - ORB?S ADVENTURES BEYOND THE ULTRAWORLD
/mnt/cdrw/Orbital - PEEL SESSIONS

Which mean invalid chars. But does does not excuse this irritating behaviour of MC. Did anyone experience this in the past? I usually dont use strange characters in my files names, so I didnt ever notice this. Any help would be greatly appreciated, because other than that MC is a very nice and complete tool, but if this can be adreesed in any way I will have to drop MC from my toolbox, I just can't stand this risk and lose hours of work like this just because of an encoding issue.

i92guboj · Post by **i92guboj** » Thu Nov 17, 2005 8:21 pm

Solved. It seems that recompiling it with USE="-ncurses slang" works for now. It can now copy my all the above directories with no problems. Still, I think that the one to blame is mc, if it can use a the name of a dir as an argument to change into that dir, why can't it use that same tag to copy it?