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diff --git a/examples/scripts/fixfiles.bash b/examples/scripts/fixfiles.bash new file mode 100644 index 0000000..15f3ba8 --- /dev/null +++ b/examples/scripts/fixfiles.bash @@ -0,0 +1,92 @@ +#! /bin/bash +# +# From: c2a192@ugrad.cs.ubc.ca (Kazimir Kylheku) +# Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell,comp.os.linux.misc +# Subject: GNU Bash Script to fix filenames +# Date: 28 Mar 1996 14:54:43 -0800 +# Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada +# +#This is a script which takes a list of directories, descends through each one +#and ``corrects'' filenames that: +# +# - contain filename globbing characters: * ? [ ] +# - quote characters: ' " +# - control characters: 0-31 (127 is not dealt with---oops) +# - - or + as the first character +# +# The GNU version of 'tr' is required. Also requires 'sed'. +# +# Script to process a given list of directories recursively +# and rename each file to something that is reasonable. +# +# The rules are: +# +# 1. replace each space, [, ], *, ", and ' character in the name with a +# period. +# 2. replace each control character 1..31 with a printable character obtained +# by adding 64 to the ascii value. ^A becomes A, ^B becomes B and so on. +# 3. replace a - or + occuring at the beginning of the name with a # +# +# 4. if the resulting name has been changed in any way, then +# 5. if a file of the new name already exists, then +# 6. add a . to the new name and goto step 5. +# 7. rename the old name to the new name +# +# written by Kaz Kylheku <kaz@cafe.net> +# March 1996 +# Vancouver, Canada +# +# requires GNU 'bash', GNU 'tr', and some sort of 'sed' program. +# +# minimal conversion to bash v2 syntax done by Chet Ramey + +processfile() +{ + new_name="`echo -n $1 | tr '\173\175\052\077\042\047 ' '.......' | + tr '[\000-\037]' '[\100-\137]' | + sed -e 's/^-/#/' -e 's/+/#/'`" + if [ "$new_name" != "$1" ] ; then + while [ -e "$new_name" ] ; do + new_name="${new_name}." + done + echo changing \"$1\" to \"$new_name\" in `pwd` + mv -- "$1" "$new_name" + fi +} + +processdir() +{ + set -f + local savepwd="$PWD" + if cd "$1" ; then + set +f + for file in * ; do + set -f + if [ "$file" != "." ] && [ "$file" != ".." ] ; then + if [ -L "$file" ] ; then + echo "skipping symlink" $file in `pwd` + elif [ -d "$file" ] ; then + processdir "$file" + elif [ -f "$file" ] ; then + processfile "$file" + fi + fi + done + cd "$savepwd" + fi +} + +shopt -s nullglob dotglob + +if [ $# = 0 ] ; then + echo "$0: must specify a list of directories" >&2 + echo "$0: usage: $0 directory [directory ...]" >&2 + exit 2 +fi + +while [ $# != 0 ] ; do + processdir "$1" + shift +done + +exit 0 |