Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?

[The Badger <badgy@example.com>]

Hello David,

Just a thought: Trying to encode the path of the remote file into the 
filename after downloading seems weird.  Why not just re-create the 
folder structure?

For example, if you download

http://www.aaa.com/~john/foo-txt.htm

then you would have the following file on your disk:

/home/david/my web downloads/www.aaa.com/~john/foo.txt

Isn't that what pretty much what `wget', or any other web downloader 
tool would do?

David Combs wrote:
> I'm downloading files of names like:
>
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>      http://www.aaa.com/~john/foo-txt.htm
>
> Now, when I do this in a browser (I use lynx (shell-account))
> the default name to store it under is foo-txt.htm.
>
> Years later, what I'll want to know is exactly where it came from, ie
> I'd like the filename to depict the entire url.
>
>
> Like this, perhaps?
>
>      http://www.aaa.com/~john/foo-txt.htm
>
> Nope, because regardless of what the computer will
> make of it, it'll confuse *me* -- not knowing whether
> those slashes represent dir-separators within *my* computer,
> or in some far-away (maybe long dead) server.
>
>
> Hmmm.  Maybe "---" for "/"?
>
> What about ":"?  
>
> And what about "~"?
>
> Plus other chars I've not thought of?
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> Making it even longer, if the *title* of the report in
> the file is "10 easy editing tips", and I want that reflected
> in the name too.
>
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>     Like 10-easy-editing-tips---http<colonSlashSlash>www.aaa.com... (you
>      get the idea).
>
>
> And, whatever we decide on, another question comes up -- how to ENTER
> that NAME into the computer -- both in emacs (dired) and in, say, tcsh.
>
> What, iva C-Q for emacs and ^V in unix.
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> David
>
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> P.S.: Oh, I forgot.  tar shouldn't barf on the name.
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