fix corrupt filenames natively or with detox #tools #linux

README.MD

native search/replace of corrupt �

installation

• sudo apt-get install rename perl libunicode-map8-perl

corrupt question marks

• find . -exec rename 's/�/x/g' "{}" \;

corrupt umlauts

• find ./ -type f -print0 | rename -v -0 'BEGIN { use Unicode::Map8; our $l1_map = Unicode::Map8->new("latin1") }; our $l1_map; $_ = $l1_map->tou($_)->utf8'
• use -n instead of -v to do a dry run
• use -type d instead of -type f to rename directories instead of files

alternative with detox

installation

• sudo apt-get install detox

• mkdir /etc/detox

• cp /usr/share/detox/unicode.tbl /etc/detox/unicode.tbl

• cp /usr/share/detox/safe.tbl /etc/detox/safe.tbl

• nano /etc/detoxrc

add this on bottom:

sequence "custom" {
    #utf_8 {filename "/etc/detox/unicode.tbl";};
    safe {filename "/etc/detox/safe.tbl";};
};

configuration

• nano /etc/detox/safe.tbl

replace the following existing rules. in this example, we keep spaces and brackets:

0x20	' '	# space
0x28	(	# (
0x29	)	# )

usage

• detox -s custom -r -v --dry-run ./
• detox -s custom -r -v ./