[ale] perl / filesystem script

Jim Kinney jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Mon Oct 25 08:51:14 EDT 1999


I was going to suggest either remove their thumbs ore theire entire
keyboard, but I guess removing just the spacebar is a more humane
solutions. But which one would give me more sysadmin satisfaction?
BOFH school of Sys Adminning, 1997 suma cum laude.

Jim  :)

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999 m at wroth.com wrote:

> take the space bar off the keyboards of the people at work that cannot
> name their files correctly.
> 
> 
> jfondow wrote:
> > 
> > I found a perl script a couple of weeks ago and now I can't find it
> > again (I thought I bookmarked it).  What I am trying to do is rename a
> > directory and files from "a file name with spaces" to
> > "a_file_name_with_spaces".  Some of the folks at work are using pc's to
> > edit their web pages and the pc allows spaces, but when trying to do
> > backups and file manipulation, it bombs on the linux box of course.  Any
> > ideas would be greatly appreciated.  TIA
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?
> 






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