Re: renaming really long filenames

[Chuck Gelm <nc8q@gelm.net>]

Hi, Stephen:

 Hey, this looks great!  Thanks.  I'll read up with
"man tr".  I am thinking that I would like to translate
spaces to underscores and non-alphanumeric to null.


Stephen Samuel wrote:
> 
> My solution would be something like:
> 
> for i in * ;   do  mv "./$i" "`echo ./$i | tr -d '\00-\042\173-\377<>|' `" ; done
> 
> Note: I'm deleting characters starting at 7bH, not 6fH -- 6F is in the middle
> of the lower case alphabet, so  it doesn't make sense.
> 
> Other things to note:
>    I'm using octal (base 8) characters in the string, not hex
>    the backquote (`)  says to run the command and use the output as the
>    parameter to (in this case) the 'mv' command.
> 
>    I'm using './filename' to handle the possibility of a filename starting with
>    a '-' and being mistaken for an option.   './' says "in the current directory",
>    so it's something of a no-op, but guarantees that the name won't start with a '-'.
> 
>    the double quotes around "./$i" make sure that spaces (and other greeblies) in the
>    original filename don't get interpreted as work breaks.
> 
> Chuck Gelm wrote:
> >  Howdy, Y'all:
> >
> >  I have some very long filenames that I would like to shorten.
> > The filenames contain 'spaces' and some characters with tics or
> > apostrophes, and tildes over them.  I tried to change them from
> > a console session, but I don't know how to generate those special
> > characters from the keyboard...and I really don't want to type
> > the long filenames anyway.  :-|
> > OBTW, I have no GUI (X windows) on this computer.
> >
> >  Is there a way to remove all characters < 023h && > 06fh
> > from these filenames?
<snip>
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