i've 600gb of data's from Mac Users, saved in a disk formatted in HFS+. A lot of folder and file name contain 'final spaces'. I don't know how users inserted them , but the result is that via Samba, a folder named "Customer ABC " (with the final space) become for example "EHFJ~1". In addition, users used special charachters like • and others strange file name.
How to massive rename that files/folder removing final spaces ? Is it possible using a linux / mac os script ?
Thanks
I have written a small python script to remove all characters from filenames that makes handling them under *nix difficult.
Perhaps this can help you as well.
#! /usr/bin/python # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- """ usage: fixFileNames.py FILE... Renames FILEs to sensible names, avoiding collision. """ import sys import os from string import maketrans def fixFileName(file): ''' move file to filename: - without spaces, pipe characters, quotes ''' intab = ' |' outtab = '__' trantab = maketrans(intab, outtab) newFileName = file.translate(trantab, '\'\"').replace('_-_', '-') if file != newFileName: #only renames file if it's name contains any unwanted characters if os.path.exists(newFileName): print "ERROR: Not renaming %s, %s exists already" % (file, newFileName) else: print "renaming %s to %s" % (file, newFileName) os.rename(file, newFileName) # else: # print "file %s and newFilename %s are equal" % (file, newFileName) if __name__ == "__main__": if not len(sys.argv) > 1: print __doc__ sys.exit(1) for file in sys.argv[1:]: fixFileName(file) Anyone is free to use and or improve this. If you have any improvements I'd like to hear about them.
Yes, it is! I don't knwo exactly how, but since nobody else answered this yet, I think it is better than nothing. Using some regular expressions, that match final whitespace it should be possible. I don't know however how to get the truncated part of the filename
