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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting How best to remove certain characters from filenames and folders recursively Post 302641833 by prometheon123 on Wednesday 16th of May 2012 02:19:25 PM
Old 05-16-2012
Hey Otheus,

Thanks for the response and the help. I'm able to get your script working for some reason. Don't I need to specifically specify perl in the command line? A script I found that seems to be kind of working. I'm just not sure how to define which variables to replace. The file types that Box doesn't support are \/*?”<>| Like you, I don't think I've ever see a forward slash in a file name, but Box said to make sure it's not there.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

sub processDir
{
    my $dir=shift;
    opendir(DIR, $dir);
    my @files=grep {! /^\.\.?$/} readdir(DIR);
    closedir(DIR);
    foreach my $file(@files)
    {
        if(-d "$dir/$file") 
        {
            processDir("$dir/$file");
        }
        my $newfile=$file;
        $newfile=~ s/[,& '\(\)]/_/g; #Search for ',','&','<','>','*','?','|','"',':', "'", '(', ')' in filenames and replace them with underscores.
        if( $newfile ne $file )
        {
            print "Renaming \"$dir/$file\" to \"$dir/$newfile\"\n";
            rename "$dir/$file","$dir/$newfile" or warn("Problems renaming $dir/$file --> $dir/$newfile: $!\n"); 
        }
    }
}

my $dir=shift;
if(!defined($dir))
{
    $dir=".";
}
processDir($dir);


At the command prompt I entered perl rename2.pl Desktop/BoxMigraiton/FILESHARE
 

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