wizel10
glynhudson
/ renamespace.sh
Created
January 31, 2017 20:23
Bash script to rename file names in a folder to remove spaces and special characters, used when importing photos into Piwigo
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # Convert filenames to lowercase | |
| # and replace characters recursively | |
| ##################################### | |
| if [ -z $1 ];then echo Give target directory; exit 0;fi | |
| find "$1" -depth -name '*' | while read file ; do | |
| directory=$(dirname "$file") | |
| oldfilename=$(basename "$file") |