Shell Programming and Scripting

find /targetdir -type f -print0 | xargs -rl0 rename_bad_filename

#!/usr/bin/perl
$newf = $oldf=$ARGV[0];
# replace any non alpha-numeric characters, excluding / . and - with an underscore
$newf =~ s/[^a-zA-Z0-9.\/-]/_/g;
exit 0 if $newf eq $oldf;
print "Renaming \"$oldf\" to \"$newf\"...";
rename $oldf,$newf ;
print ($! ? "Error: $!\n" : "OK\n");

$ rename_bad_filename  2l4kj2l^%.
Renaming "2l4kj2l^%." to "2l4kj2l__."...Error: No such file or directory
$ rename_bad_filename  2l4kj2l.
$ rename_bad_filename  2l4kj2l.\!
Renaming "2l4kj2l.!" to "2l4kj2l._"...Error: No such file or directory
$ rename_bad_filename  \[2-7\]-ldap-reordered
Renaming "[2-7]-ldap-reordered" to "_2-7_-ldap-reordered"...OK

#!/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);

#!/bin/bash


find . -depth -name "*[,&<>*?|\":'()]*" |     # Find all files or folders containing 'bad' characters.
while read FILEDIR                            # Read them line-by-line.
do
        DIR="${FILEDIR%/*}"                   # Get the folder its inside
        FILE="${FILEDIR/*\/}"                 # Get the plain name.
        NEWFILE="${FILE//[,&<>*?|\":\'()]/_}" # Substitute _ for bad things.
        echo mv "$DIR/$FILE" "$DIR/$NEWFILE"  # Rename it.
done

\/*?”<>|

find . -depth -name "*\/*?”<>|*"

NEWFILE="${FILE//[\/*?”<>|]/_}"

sh renamefiles.sh BoxMigraiton/FILESHAREWITHBADFILENAMES