From 1baa505464486a9023b5b80f04bba3582e76e296 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: clyhtsuriva <aimeric@adjutor.xyz>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 19:29:58 +0200
Subject: Add new script that converts file names

Basically removes any special characters except dash, underscores, dots and spaces.
More easy to type in a terminal withotu using quotes around a file name
---
 bin/convert_filenames.sh | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
 create mode 100755 bin/convert_filenames.sh

(limited to 'bin/convert_filenames.sh')

diff --git a/bin/convert_filenames.sh b/bin/convert_filenames.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..9ccba13
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bin/convert_filenames.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Clyhtsuriva
+
+# Check if file arguments are provided
+if [ "$#" -lt 1 ]; then
+  echo "Usage: $0 <file1> [<file2> ...]"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Loop through all file arguments
+for file in "$@"; do
+  # Check if the file exists
+  if [ ! -f "$file" ]; then
+    echo "File '$file' does not exist."
+    exit 1
+  fi
+
+  echo "$file"
+
+  # Get the lowercase version of the file name
+  new_name=$(basename "$file" | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+# Replace parentheses, brackets, and square brackets with dashes
+  new_name=${new_name//[()]/-}
+  new_name=${new_name//\[/-}
+  new_name=${new_name//\]/-}
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+ # Remove special characters that are not '_', '-', '.' and spaces.
+  new_name=${new_name//[^a-zA-Z0-9_. -]/}
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+  # Replace spaces with '_'
+  new_name=${new_name//  / }
+  new_name=${new_name// /_}
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+  # Replace consecutive occurrences of '_-_', '_-', '-_' and '-_-' by '-'.
+  new_name=${new_name//_\-_/-}
+  new_name=${new_name//_\-/-}
+  new_name=${new_name//-\_/-}
+  new_name=${new_name//-\-_/-}
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+  # Replace consecutive occurrences of '-.' by '.'.
+  new_name=${new_name//\-\./.}
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+  # Replace consecutive occurrences of '--' with a single '-'.
+  new_name=${new_name//--/-}
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+  # Replace multiple underscores with single '_'.
+  new_name=${new_name//__/_}
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+  # Remove leading special characters
+  new_name=${new_name##[![:alnum:]]}
+  echo "$new_name"
+
+  # Rename the file
+  mv "$file" "$(dirname "$file")/$new_name"
+done
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