From: Chris Koeritz <fred@gruntose.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:28:58 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: new script, basically ripping off the bracket fixer.  there's a more
X-Git-Tag: 2.140.90~1371
X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b7838e4daba218fe52c800af282fe05d24554a1;p=feisty_meow.git

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.
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diff --git a/scripts/files/spaces_to_underscores.sh b/scripts/files/spaces_to_underscores.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ebfbcff6
--- /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
+