tidynames

Removes whitespace and non-ascii characters from file and directory names.

installation

Download the latest release

wget https://github.com/bfoersterling/tidynames/releases/latest/download/tidynames_linux_x86_64 -O /tmp/tidynames
sudo install -v -m 755 /tmp/tidynames /usr/local/bin

Or build it.
Clone this repo and:

sudo just install

usage

Dryrun:

$ tidynames -n *
---dry run---
("Foo bar.txt" -> "./foobar.txt")
("This is an aweful ｜ Name for a file ® (file 1) [QJHPlKPOc78].m4a.bak" -> "./thisisanawefulnameforafile(file1)[qjhplkpoc78].m4a.bak")
("Weird Files" -> "./weirdfiles")
"already_tidy.txt" is already tidy.

Rename all files and dirs in the current dir:

$ tidynames *
"Foo bar.txt" -> "./foobar.txt"
"This is an aweful ｜ Name for a file ® (file 1) [QJHPlKPOc78].m4a.bak" -> "./thisisanawefulnameforafile(file1)[qjhplkpoc78].m4a.bak"
"Weird Files" -> "./weirdfiles"
"already_tidy.txt" is already tidy.

TODO

• remove braces (,) and [, ] - because they force single quotes around file names as they have special meaning in bash
• implement option -r to rename entire dir recursively => complex feature - need to take renamed parent dirs into account before traversing down
• options to replace whitespace or non-ascii chars with specific chars (struct replace_config already exists)