Renaming Files Question

[Paul Boniol]

I am renaming (and will be moving) my MythTV files so Emby can figure them out.  However, I'm not understanding what is wrong with ones that have a single quote in the name.  One example of several:

mv -i 1062_20180509230000.ts 'Doctor Who S03E35 The Gunfighters Don\'t Shoot the Pianist - 2018-05-09_18-00-00.ts'

I thought the single quote method was easier than having to escape all the spaces, parentheses, etc that appear in the names..However I'm not figuring out the single quotes.  I tried to follow an example I found online but I can't make sense of it.

Paul

[Kent Perrier]

I am guessing you are hitting the ' in the file name itself. 

If you tab complete the file name do you get something like this?

-rw-rw-r--.  1 kperrier kperrier    0 Feb 15 09:49 "file name'd with a quote in it"
[kperrier@kperrier tmp]$ mv 'file name'\''d with a quote in it'

If you use double quotes around the filename you don't need to escape anything. 

Kent

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[Paul Boniol]

I had tried tab completing a file name that I changed manually. Earlier it didn't tab complete, but it does now.(maybe I mistyped something). Yes, that's what I get. And interesting on the double quotes. There are only a few that have " in them, so that's a much more manageable option.

Thank you!

Paul

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