On Sun, May 12, 2024 at 01:40:25PM +0200, Walter Alejandro Iglesias wrote: > > Unix development. Given that i've been using computers for a few > > decades, i still instinctively don't use spaces in filenames, even > > though they're very much allowed. But of course, that's not what > > most of the world does, and this is an example of trying to work > > out what the best tradeoffs might be when dealing with the > > messiness of the real world. > > I overlooked this in my example because I *never* use spaces, UTF-8 or > any special characters to name my file names. Lately, I finally > persuaded my wife to use Linux, after decades of having to use Windows. > Even when I educated her in this matter she has clients who send her > files named with any kind of crap, so taking care of this issue is still > convenient. >
I download a lot of files with a hideous mess of characters. I wrote a small script to substitute in acceptable characters. I can enter a regex, select to just use a directory or go down recursively. Also I can select to only change filenames or directories or both. After reading this thread I see I need to update the script. -- Regards, Chris Bennett "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell - 1984
