Re: [Banshee-List] banshee playlist export * in name becomes _

[IBBoard <ibboard gmail com>]

You can use it in a file name on Linux, if you escape the character at
the command-line (e.g. "example\*file"), but it is generally advisable
not to use characters with special meaning, and so they're often
sanitised for safety.

For example, if you let someone create a file called "D*" and then they
latter tried "rm -rf D*" intending to delete just the file then it'd
also potentially delete their Documents and Downloads folder.

Yes, that'd be a bit of a silly command to run, but it is better to be
safe and not help a user shoot themselves in the foot!

Also, asterisk appears to be prohibited on FAT file systems:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename#Comparison_of_filename_limitations (old,
but potentially another reason for cleansing them).



On 04/02/15 20:39, F.J.H. Dols wrote:
> Thanks for your explanation, and time.
>
> * may stand for other characters when used as a wild card, but does that
> necessarily exclude * from being part of file names? I do use * as part
> of file names every now and then.
>
> Well, Banshee is a great thing and I am happily living with small
> details like this one!
>
>
>
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>
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> On 02/04/2015 07:50 PM, IBBoard wrote:
> > "*" is a special character in file names - it is a wild card. Sanitising
> > names so that they don't cause issues normally results in the underscore
> > character being used. That change is "destructive" (there's no way to
> > know whether the character was originally an underscore or one of a
> > dozen other forbidden characters), so when the playlist is re-imported
> > then there's no way of knowing what to turn it back to.
> >
> > Looking at the source code, any playlist that doesn't define a title
> > gets the file name without the extension as its title*. If the playlist
> > format you chose is purely a list of tracks with no metadata about the
> > playlist (so it doesn't define a title) then you'll get the behaviour
> > that you saw.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > * var title = playlist.Title ?? Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension
> > (uri.LocalPath);
> >
> >
> >
> > On 03/02/15 21:11, F.J.H. Dols wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > upon export a * in the name of the playlist becomes _.
> > > When importing this stays a _.
> > >
> > > is there a reason for this or is it a small bug?
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