Kevin Oberman wrote: > 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
> 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 Thanks Kevin, I re-read man tr, & cludged 2 shells & notes, which forced what I needed: http://www.berklix.com/~jhs/bin/.sh/tonoquotes Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix 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. _______________________________________________ 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"
