I had a batch of text files with names like "How to do this one cool thing (it's really cool).txt", and I wanted to drop them into DokuWiki, but it won't accept files with any characters other than a-z, 0-9, -, and _. So I wanted to convert the names to all lowercase, change the spaces to underscores, and strip out the special characters.
I was gonna post a message to the list about it, but I decided to search first, and here's what I found: http://filerenameutils.sourceforge.net/ A collection of bash scripts that do EXACTLY what I wanted. lowercase *, mv_spaces2underscores *, and mv_chars2null '(),!?' * I figured I'd post it in case someone needs this in the future (bound to happen, right?) Joe
