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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing unknow chars from file names. Post 302667713 by Joktaa on Saturday 7th of July 2012 04:11:56 PM
Old 07-07-2012
The external drive is in FAT32.

Some of the weird char are things like | and other special chars.

---------- Post updated 07-07-12 at 04:11 PM ---------- Previous update was 07-06-12 at 11:08 PM ----------

Does anyone know a string to find an remove special characters (excluding the period) from all file names in a folder recursively?
 

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wxPrintDialogData(3erl) 				     Erlang Module Definition					   wxPrintDialogData(3erl)

NAME
wxPrintDialogData - See external documentation: wxPrintDialogData. DESCRIPTION
See external documentation: wxPrintDialogData . DATA TYPES
wxPrintDialogData() : An object reference, The representation is internal and can be changed without notice. It can't be used for comparsion stored on disc or distributed for use on other nodes. EXPORTS
new() -> wxPrintDialogData() See external documentation . new(DialogData::wxPrintDialogData() | wxPrintData() (see module wxPrintData)) -> wxPrintDialogData() See external documentation . enableHelp(This::wxPrintDialogData(), Flag::bool()) -> ok See external documentation . enablePageNumbers(This::wxPrintDialogData(), Flag::bool()) -> ok See external documentation . enablePrintToFile(This::wxPrintDialogData(), Flag::bool()) -> ok See external documentation . enableSelection(This::wxPrintDialogData(), Flag::bool()) -> ok See external documentation . getAllPages(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> bool() See external documentation . getCollate(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> bool() See external documentation . getFromPage(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> integer() See external documentation . getMaxPage(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> integer() See external documentation . getMinPage(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> integer() See external documentation . getNoCopies(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> integer() See external documentation . getPrintData(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> wxPrintData() (see module wxPrintData) See external documentation . getPrintToFile(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> bool() See external documentation . getSelection(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> bool() See external documentation . getToPage(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> integer() See external documentation . isOk(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> bool() See external documentation . setCollate(This::wxPrintDialogData(), Flag::bool()) -> ok See external documentation . setFromPage(This::wxPrintDialogData(), V::integer()) -> ok See external documentation . setMaxPage(This::wxPrintDialogData(), V::integer()) -> ok See external documentation . setMinPage(This::wxPrintDialogData(), V::integer()) -> ok See external documentation . setNoCopies(This::wxPrintDialogData(), V::integer()) -> ok See external documentation . setPrintData(This::wxPrintDialogData(), PrintData::wxPrintData() (see module wxPrintData)) -> ok See external documentation . setPrintToFile(This::wxPrintDialogData(), Flag::bool()) -> ok See external documentation . setSelection(This::wxPrintDialogData(), Flag::bool()) -> ok See external documentation . setToPage(This::wxPrintDialogData(), V::integer()) -> ok See external documentation . destroy(This::wxPrintDialogData()) -> ok Destroys this object, do not use object again AUTHORS
<> wxErlang 0.98.9 wxPrintDialogData(3erl)
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