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Tames problematic filenames

5 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 1 story, 4 comments · first 2021-04-14 · latest 2025-07-15

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  1. …but I remember detox[1] being good for bulk renaming without me having to provide input. [1]: https://github.com/dharple/detox
  2. I'd like to mention two tools that I love and use: detox ( https://github.com/dharple/detox ) -- for sanitising filenames; and mtm ( https://github.com/deadpixi/mtm ) -- smallest terminal multiplexer.
    comment by ckunte · 2022-04-16 · in New(ish) command line tools
  3. You might be interested in detox: https://github.com/dharple/detox
  4. https://github.com/dharple/detox is a nice tool for this. Sane defaults but configurable. In addition to CLI I use it from emacs dired-mode too: (defun my-dired-detox () (interactive) (dired-do-shell-command "detox" nil…
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    Detox: Replace Problematic Characters in Filenames
    story by ducktective · 2021-04-14 · 0 comments