On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> wrote:
> Hi ports@ > Is there a utility in ports/ to automatically clean disgusting path > names in big trees one acquires from Microsoft users ? > > Trees with in both directories & filenames, masses of meta characters > such as as ' ` . * | \ & space (& accents & high parity bit national > extensions eg german umlauts) etc. > > It's known: > tr exists, > find has -X > xargs has -0 > One can delimit path names on command line, > One could reinvent the wheel, writing & improving a scarey > shell script (that would probably break while debugging & > trash some data) > > But I'm looking for something better, that probably already exists, that > will permanently clean trees, to no longer need to delimit various > utilities against nasty names, each time tree is accessed. > > Either: > An existing tool (preferably C) one can run automatically > to forcibly rename dirs & files in a Unix friendly manner ? > > Or if none exists I'll write a C program to run from find. > If so, I'll probably just map nasty chars inc. any high bit > parity (accents umlauts & other noise) to eg "0xAB" expansion. > ( I dont care about national accents & char sets. ) > > PS Assume files are big, copying not viable, rename/mv via link & unlink > best. > > Any tools (URLs) known ? Or should I write my own ? > > Cheers, > Julian > -- > Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix'78 C Sys Eng Consultant Munich > http://berklix.com > Indent previous with "> ". Interleave reply paragraphs like a play > script. > Send plain text, not quoted-printable, HTML, base64, or > multipart/alternative. > > Around decade or so ago I was looking for a tool to clean up all of the Microsoft "special" characters in web pages. I found "demoroniser", a public domain tool written by "John Walker". As is, it does not meet your needs, but goes a long way in the right direction. It expects to work with files, not directory trees, but modifying to would be quite trivial, mostly wrapping it in a recursive loop that uses opendir, readdir, and closedir to walk the tree and feed it the directory names. (No, I am not volunteering.) Most notably, it is written in Perl, not C. Perl is now very of of fashion. In any case, it is available at: http://www.fourmilab.ch/webtools/demoroniser/ -- Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
