new script, basically ripping off the bracket fixer. there's a more

general way to attack this issue.  we kind of want to be able to chain
a bunch of name changes together for different purposes.

diff --git a/scripts/files/spaces_to_underscores.sh b/scripts/files/spaces_to_underscores.sh
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..ebfbcff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/files/spaces_to_underscores.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# takes names given to it and replaces any spaces or other gnarly characters with underscores.
+
+#hmmm: this starts to look like a useful function that the bracket fixer could also use.
+
+if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
+  echo "This script requires one or more file names whose names should be fixed."
+  echo "Any spaces or single-quote characters will be stripped out in a useful way."
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
+  file="$1"; shift
+  newname="$(echo "$file" | tr ' ' '_' | tr -d "'" | sed -e 's/\([0-9]\)_\./\1./g' )"
+  if [ "$file" != "$newname" ]; then
+    # we've effected a name change, so let's actually do it.
+    echo "moving '$file' => '$newname'  "
+    mv "$file" "$newname"
+  fi
+done
+