Shell script to fix bad filenames? [closed]
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Published on 2012-08-20T01:51:35Z
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I'm IT at my small firm; and, despite my dire warnings, everyone puts files on the server with awful names, including leading & trailing spaces, bad characters (including \ ; / + . < > -
etc!)
They do this by accessing the (FreeBSD/FreeNAS) server via AFP on Macs, so no part of the system complains.
Is there a script I can use to go through an entire directory tree and fix bad filenames?
Basically replace all spaces & bad ASCII with _
... and if a file already exists, just slap a _2
or something on the end.
I don't suppose there's a way to get the system to enforce good filenaming conventions, is there?
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