safe-renamer

Golang program to rename files to shell-safe characters using ASCII transliteration

Purpose

To give files safe names, that consist of nothing more than:

• a-z
• A-Z
• 0-9
• underscore
• hyphen
• dot

The hyphen is not allowed at the beginning of the filename.

Any character not allowed is replaced by an underscore.

I use this utility to remove spaces and Unicode characters from filenames because those characters often mess up other programs and make files more difficult to process.

Status

Ready to use.

Installation

This program is written in Google Go language. Make sure that Go is installed and the GOPATH is set up as described in How to Write Go Code.

The install this program and its dependencies by running:

go get github.com/BluntSporks/safe-renamer

Usage

Usage:

safe-renamer [-commit] FILENAME

Options:

-commit  Actually do the file renaming, otherwise it just checks that renaming can be done.