You want to automatically format and clean a file name before upload on a website?
Do you want to remove spaces, symbol and accents from a filename automatically, or in batch?
These command will strip anything that's not good to have in a web filename and copy your file to the new file! You can rename original file by change last "cp" with "mv"
#!/bin/bash
FILE=$1
# Remove path
FILECLEAN="${FILE##*/}"
# Find extension (sometimes useful)
FILEXT="${FILECLEAN##*.}"
# Find filename without extension
FILENAME="${FILECLEAN%.*}"
# Convert spaces in dash
FILENAME="${FILENAME// /-}"
# Remove symbols and keep dash and underscores
FILENAME="${FILENAME//[^[:alnum:]_-]/}"
# Remove eventual double dashes from filename
FILENAME="$(echo $FILENAME | tr -s '-')"
# First letter uppercase and other lowercase
FILENAME="$(tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' <<< ${FILENAME:0:1})$(tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' <<< ${FILENAME:1})"
cp "$FILE" "$FILENAME"".""$FILEXT"
Save it into a file with .sh extension, then do this to make it executable:
chmod +x file.sh
Execute with:
./file.sh file
#!/bin/bash# Rimuovo i *.jpg etc dalla lista dei FILEshopt -s nullglobfor FILE in *; do# Remove pathFILECLEAN="${FILE##*/}"# Find extension (sometimes useful)FILEXT="${FILECLEAN##*.}"# Find filename without extensionFILENAME="${FILECLEAN%.*}"# Convert spaces in dashFILENAME="${FILENAME// /-}"# Remove symbols and keep dash and underscoresFILENAME="${FILENAME//[^[:alnum:]_-]/}"# Remove eventual double dashes from filenameFILENAME="$(echo $FILENAME | tr -s '-')"# First letter uppercase and other lowercaseFILENAME="$(tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' <<< ${FILENAME:0:1})$(tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' <<< ${FILENAME:1})"cp "$FILE" "$FILENAME"".""$FILEXT"done
