[TriLUG] File rename utility

[sholton at mindspring.com]

I think this type of solution might introduce more problems than you think, 
once you implement it.
For example, what should be done if there are duplicates?

Might I suggest an alternative...

Could you copy all the files to a filesystem which
a) is understood natively by Windows
b) supports long/"internationalized" filenames.

Can you Joliet these?

You get the "convert the filenames" for free, don't have to 
worry about name colissions, etc.

The downside is you get all the other baggage Windows is famous for,
but I suspect you're already encumbered by this through your users.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tarus Balog <tarus at opennms.org>
Sent: Jul 16, 2004 9:10 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: [TriLUG] File rename utility

Gang:

I have a large archive of ... files, some of which contain special  
characters in their names. While this seems to work fine on Linux and  
OSX, I do have to make this collection of ... files available to  
Windows users.

I need an easy way to:

A) find all files names with special characters (some sort of regex for  
only A-Z, a-z, and 0-9 should do the trick)

and preferably

B) have an automated way to rename the files, changing a � to a c for  
example.

-T
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Steve Holton
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