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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: Re: What Is Your Fave File Detox?
Date: 1 May 2025 09:13:52 GMT
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On Thu, 1 May 2025 08:24:19 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vuvb3j$28v7l$2@dont-email.me>:

> On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:48:14 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:
> 
>> Generally, I want to only remove spaces, but keep foreign letters (from
>> German/Icelandic whatever).
> 
> I take full advantage of the fact that *nix systems allow filenames that
> are not legal on Dimdows.
> 
>> What annoys me is that rename command works differently in Debian to
>> other distros.
> 
> What rename command?

There's one that comes with perl.

I prefer "mmv" for mass renaming:

MMV(1)                   User Commands                   MMV(1)

NAME
       mmv - move/copy/link multiple files by wildcard patterns

SYNOPSIS
       mmv   [-m|-x|-r|-c|-o|-a|-l|-s]   [-h]  [-d|-p]  [-g|-t]
       [-v|-n] FROM TO

DESCRIPTION
       move/copy/link multiple files by wildcard patterns

       The FROM pattern is a shell glob pattern, in  which  `*'
       stands for any number of characters and `?' stands for a
       single character.

       Use  #[l|u]N in the TO pattern to get the string matched
       by the  Nth  FROM  pattern  wildcard  [lowercased|upper‐
       cased].

       Patterns should be quoted on the command line.
[...]

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