Re: What Is Your Fave File Detox?

On Thu, 1 May 2025 08:24:19 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vuvb3j$28v7l$2@dont-email.me>:

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:48:14 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
 

Generally, I want to only remove spaces, but keep foreign letters (from
German/Icelandic whatever).

 
I take full advantage of the fact that *nix systems allow filenames that
are not legal on Dimdows.
 

What annoys me is that rename command works differently in Debian to
other distros.

 
What rename command?

There's one that comes with perl.

I prefer "mmv" for mass renaming:

MMV(1)                   User Commands                   MMV(1)

NAME
       mmv - move/copy/link multiple files by wildcard patterns

SYNOPSIS
       mmv   [-m|-x|-r|-c|-o|-a|-l|-s]   [-h]  [-d|-p]  [-g|-t]
       [-v|-n] FROM TO

DESCRIPTION
       move/copy/link multiple files by wildcard patterns

       The FROM pattern is a shell glob pattern, in  which  `*'
       stands for any number of characters and `?' stands for a
       single character.

       Use  #[l|u]N in the TO pattern to get the string matched
       by the  Nth  FROM  pattern  wildcard  [lowercased|upper‐
       cased].

       Patterns should be quoted on the command line.
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