On Thu, 1 May 2025 08:24:19 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro
<ldo@nz.invalid> wrote in <vuvb3j$28v7l$2@dont-email.me>:

On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:48:14 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

Generally, I want to only remove spaces, but keep foreign letters (from
German/Icelandic whatever).

I take full advantage of the fact that *nix systems allow filenames that
are not legal on Dimdows.

What annoys me is that rename command works differently in Debian to
other distros.

What rename command?

There's one that comes with perl.

I prefer "mmv" for mass renaming:

MMV(1) User Commands MMV(1)

NAME
mmv - move/copy/link multiple files by wildcard patterns

SYNOPSIS
mmv [-m|-x|-r|-c|-o|-a|-l|-s] [-h] [-d|-p] [-g|-t]
[-v|-n] FROM TO

DESCRIPTION
move/copy/link multiple files by wildcard patterns

The FROM pattern is a shell glob pattern, in which `*'
stands for any number of characters and `?' stands for a
single character.

Use #[l|u]N in the TO pattern to get the string matched
by the Nth FROM pattern wildcard [lowercased|upper‐
cased].

Patterns should be quoted on the command line.
[...]

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On Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:48:14 +0800, Woozy Song wrote:

Generally, I want to only remove spaces, but keep foreign letters (from German/Icelandic whatever).

I take full advantage of the fact that *nix systems allow filenames that
are not legal on Dimdows.

What annoys me is that rename command works differently in Debian to
other distros.

What rename command?

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On Thu, 01 May 2025 10:23:40 +0000, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux>
wrote in <183b602b79d4754c$100112$5317$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com>:

On Thu, 01 May 2025 09:13:52 +0000, vallor wrote:

What rename command?

There's one that comes with perl.

I prefer "mmv" for mass renaming:

Those shell commands may not work.

Example. Some videos downloaded from YouTube will have outlandish
filenames that contain exclamation points (!) inside double quote marks: '..."...!..."...'
This is not a joke.

When bash sees that it will choke.

Not if you set +H

_[/home/vallor]_(vallor@lm)🐧_
$ !!
!!: command not found

It's best to use the renaming utilities that I cited.

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On Thu, 01 May 2025 09:13:52 +0000, vallor wrote:

What rename command?

There's one that comes with perl.

I prefer "mmv" for mass renaming:

Those shell commands may not work.

Example. Some videos downloaded from YouTube will have outlandish filenames that contain exclamation points (!) inside double quote marks: '..."...!..."...'
This is not a joke.

When bash sees that it will choke.

It's best to use the renaming utilities that I cited.



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