Re: What Is Your Fave File Detox?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:48:14 +0800, Woozy Song <suzyw0ng@outlook.com>
wrote in <vurvh2$34dtj$1@dont-email.me>:

Farley Flud wrote:

The users of GNU/Linux are in the minority but still have to deal
with the outrageous file naming practices of the Microslop/Apphole
majority.
 
What programs or scripts do you use to deal with this foreign
naming mess?
 
One example is "detox:"
 
https://github.com/dharple/detox
 
 
I always use the surprisingly still existent Perl script "sanity:"
 
https://github.com/splitbrain/sanity/tree/master
 
 
Are there any others?
 
 
 

 
Generally, I want to only remove spaces, but keep foreign letters (from
German/Icelandic whatever). What annoys me is that rename command works
differently in Debian to other distros.

$ cat despace.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl

$|=1;

while($fn = shift)
  {
  if(! -e $fn)
    {
    warn("$fn:$!\n");
    next;
    }

  $nfn = $fn;
  $nfn =~ s# #_#g;
   
  if( -e $nfn) { warn("$nfn:file exists\n"); next; }
   
  print("$fn -> $nfn ...");
  rename($fn,$nfn) || warn("while renaming $fn to $nfn:$!\n");

  print "\n";

  }


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