#!/bin/sh # Remove whitespace and certain characters from filenames in a directory [ "$#" -gt 1 ] && { printf "Usage: rmw [dir]\n" >&2 exit 1 } dir=${1:-$(pwd)} cd -- "$dir" || { printf "Couldn't cd to directory.\n" >&2 exit 1 } for file in .* *; do [ -e "$file" ] || continue newname=$(printf '%s\n' "$file" | sed -E \ -e 's/["`”“-]*//g' \ -e 's/[[:space:]]+/_/g') [ "$file" = "$newname" ] && continue if [ -e "$newname" ]; then printf "Skipping '%s' (target exists)\n" "$file" >&2 continue fi mv -- "$file" "$newname" done