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Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brac
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Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
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Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc? |
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Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:48:42 +0200 |
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David Combs wrote:
> In article <mailman.16876.1218850883.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> The Badger <badgy@example.com> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion
>
> For some (many?) purposes, yes, Like for downloading an entire
> tree, of course.
>
> But say I'm grabbing files about a given subject. I google
> the subject-name, and find some stuff here, some there,
> some of them buried way down in some dir-structure --
> and for this kind of thing, I want all of them that
> I've checked out to be good stuff to be stuffed into
> the same directory, like maybe
>
> myHistoryDoc/historyOfEmacs/
>
> What then?
(expand-file-name "www.aaa.com/~john/foo.txt" historyOfEmacsDir)
- (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, David Combs, 2008/08/15
- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, Xah, 2008/08/23
- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/08/24
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- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, Xah, 2008/08/24
- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, David Hansen, 2008/08/24
- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, David Kastrup, 2008/08/25
- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, Xah, 2008/08/25
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- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, Phil Carmody, 2008/08/25
- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/08/25
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- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, Xah, 2008/08/26
- Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?, Nikolaj Schumacher, 2008/08/26