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Remove Special Characters From macOS Filenames
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fixchars.sh
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# @see: https://superuser.com/questions/617517/remove-all-illegal-characters-from-all-filenames-in-a-given-folder
# The 's/[\:?\\]//g' regular expression removes ?, : and \ characters.
# Dry Run:
find "/path/to/files" -type f -exec rename -n 's/[\:?\\]//g' {} \;
# Execute:
find "/path/to/files" -type f -exec rename 's/[\:?\\]//g' {} \;
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