Remove Invalid characters in Filename.

2010-01-10 50 words 1 min read

Sometimes I end up having some invalid characters in filename like ? & and so on.

So simple bash script to get rid of them:

for i in `find . -type f`
do
echo $i
mv $i `echo $i |tr ? _|tr = _ |tr ’&’ ’_’`
done <a name="more">


Tags: Linux Photo

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Authored By Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal, Linux and Photography are my hobbies.Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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