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Date: Fri, 09 May 2008 21:31:17 -0400

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Subject: How to filter fat32 illegal characters from directories and files?

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These are illegal characters in a fat32 file system:

/ : ; * ? " < > |

So when I attempt to copy files which contain any of these characters to
my USB thumb drive which is a fat32 file system, it fails. I don't want
to format the thumb drive as anything else. Is there a script which will
traverse directories and files and strip these characters? I've google'd
groups and the web and can't seem to find anything! I don't want to
reinvent the wheel, but it looks as though I might have to. I'm
attempting this with a shell script, but having difficulties when
traversing sub-directories. Any examples would be appreciated too!

-Thanks

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