Dealing with spaces while scripting or in terminal is such a pain in the ass. The true dark path of horror is using spaces indeed.
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I work on a Web app and we recently decided that we're just not gonna support double quotes in free text fields because oh holy balls what a thing it is to try to deal with those in a way that doesn't open you up to multiple encoding vulnerabilities.
“\ “ and [tab] and * are your friends. I’ve been using spaces in Unix filesystems since the early 90s with no issues. Also, using terminal fonts that•put•a•faint•dot•in•each•space•character helps.
Yeah, either put quotes around it '/like this/you can incorporate/spaces/into your paths' or /just\ escape/your\ spaces/like\ this
This is fine for the most basic of use cases but once you start looping through file names or what have you, you have to start writing robust correct bash and nobody does that
Yeah but at least with periods in the title tab complete will just complete the file name all the way while with a filename with spaces I have to escape the damn space with "\ " like you said. Why do more work when I don't have to?
My shell seems to autocomplete filenames that have spaces with "\ " already.
Yeah I was gonna say this is something anyone in tech knows, spaces are a plague
I prefer dots over spaces.
Spaces can mess with stuff, double space...
I.too.prefer.dots.over.spaces.
Dots sometimes pose problems in arrs.
As soon as the file finishes downloading it becomes only the name of the movie.filetype
I can't stand the titles on torrents.
“Titles”? It’s not a title, it’s a file name that contains a lot of details about the rip. In the post’s example it tells you that it’s the movie Split, ripped from blu ray, in 1080p, with audio tracks in Italian and English, and encoded in x265. You probably would hate a lot more not being able to tell the difference between split.mp4 recorded on my cellphone in the movie theater and split.mp4 in ultra hd 4k ripped straight from Netflix.
Lol, okay. Calm down buddy. What I do doesn't affect you. The torrent description let's me know all that too, I just hate having those file names in my library, looks messy and it's less easy for my eyes to browse quickly.
I mean I never told you not to rename them lmfao. You just said “I can’t stand the titles on torrents” like people just made these really long filenames for shits and giggles. Also lots of torrent sites will feature several different kinds of rips. It’s not very convenient on the back end to have all rips of the same movie have the same file name.
Also “calm down”? Idk I thought I gave a pretty chill explanation of why things are the way they are but sorry if it didn’t come across that way.
These days, it feels like one needs a disclaimer for every opinion or fact just to avoid setting someone off. I feel like it discourages open conversation...
why not use underscores?
I've always liked underscores better because it differentiates from the file extension. It just makes sense. Except it is a wider character, so it'd be longer.
well if you're using a mono font (terminal) then there are no such thing as wider characters anyway, so for me that's not a drawback either
They are ugly. Just use -
kebab-case-for-the-win
Using spaces is so inconsiderate.
It's quite strange, I've been downloading torrents for more years than I can count, and I upload them from time to time, and I've always had the worry myself of how to name torrents: with dots? underscores? dashes? (although with spaces is definitely not an option).
I've even asked the questions on several forums and upload sites, read tutorials on these same sites etc and every time I've asked the answer has been: THERE IS NO STANDARD, even on the tutorials, I've never seen anything mentioned such a thing.
All this to say that I'm making a meme, and after so many years, this is the first time I've heard of a Warez scene, and several times in the same comments!, curious, isn't it? I wish I'd heard about it before.
Clearly the best option then is to just use some of each. Like this: "MovieTitle-2000.Your_mom h.265"
Scene has standards. You don't have to be scene to use scene naming standards. https://scenerules.org
Name [Year] (1080p265)
This is how I sort my movies at least
Mine is: [Year] Name [Languages][Resolution]
I usually add tvdb id for Series so that fixing identification problems in jellyfin is easier.
It's supposed to be a dash before the group name.
i just let radarr do it for me nowadays
In this day and age where most of not all modern media library management software can decipher almost anything without any problem, is that really an issue?
Yes.
1080p is great and all...No really it looks amazing. but it takes up a fuck load of space.
Just name them in scene format even if you're not scene.