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05-17-2008

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You just need to escape or double quote the special characters on the command line. In my experience, Bash does this for you automatically with tab completion, although there are some minor glitches.

The only characters you absolutely cannot use in a file name are slash (because it's used to separate directories) and ASCII null (because it's used internally to terminate strings).

Here's a quick attempt at batch rename.

Code:

for f in *; do
  case $f in *[!A-Za-z0-9_-]*)  mv -i "$f" "`echo "$f" | tr " " _ | tr -dc A-Za-z0-9_-`";; esac
done

This might be even a little bit too conservative in what characters it will accept in a file name, but at least it's a start.

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fimgs(1)						      General Commands Manual							  fimgs(1)

NAME

       fimgs - poor man's [http://]PostScript/pdf/dvi/cbr/rar/cbz/zip viewer for the linux framebuffer console

SYNOPSIS

       fimgs [ options ] file

DESCRIPTION

       fimgs  is a simple wrapper script which takes a PostScript or pdf or .cbr or .rar or .cbz or .zip or .dvi or any of the above prefixed with
       http:// as input, renders the pages using ghostscript into a temporarely directory and finally calls fbi to display them.  In case of  com-
       pressed	archives  (in  zip  or rar formats), the images are decompressed into a directory and displayed.  In this latter case, only images
       contained in the archive will be displayed (no nested archives or pdf's or ps's or dvi's).

OPTIONS

       fimgs still does not understand all of fim's options (they are not passed through).  so please use fimgs -h to get help on its options.

       You can use option -p <password> if your PDF file requires password.

SEE ALSO

       fim(1), gs(1), fbi(1), fbgs(1), bash(1)

AUTHOR

       Michele Martone <dezperado _ GUESS _ autistici.org>.

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