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Tames problematic filenames
https://github.com/dharple/detox
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Tames problematic filenames
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/dharple/detox
- Owner: dharple
- License: bsd-3-clause
- Created: 2017-02-23T04:38:21.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-04-06T02:01:28.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-04-07T02:12:07.558Z (3 months ago)
- Topics: c, filenames-change
- Language: C
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.19 MB
- Stars: 280
- Watchers: 12
- Forks: 15
- Open Issues: 24
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Overview
`detox` is a program that renames files to make them easier to work with under
Linux and other Unix-like operating systems. Spaces and various other unsafe
characters (such as "`$`") get replaced with "`_`". The upper portion of
ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) can be transcoded to UTF-8, as can CP-1252.
More details are contained in the `detox.1` [man page].
---
# Notice for Package Maintainers
Version 2 and up have a new dependency for package builds: `pkg-config` or
`pkgconf`.
You may also need to add a dependency on `libtool`. Please let me know if you
do, by creating an [issue]. I'll update the docs accordingly.
Also, the default config file and translation tables are no longer prefixed
with `.sample`.
Please open an [issue] for any build problems encountered. Thanks!
# Notice for Everyone
As of version 3, `detox` will no longer try to transliterate all of Unicode
into the ASCII character space. The focus will be on truly problematic
characters.
Older releases and version-specific branches are still available if you need
that functionality. During this transition, the old tables are also available
in `table/legacy/`
---
# Runtime Notes
The most important option to learn is `-n`, aka `--dry-run`. This will let you
run `detox` without actually changing any files, so that you can get an idea
of what `detox` is all about.
The simplest way to run `detox` is to just run it on a directory containing
files that need work:
```
detox xfer_files/
```
You can also just to specify the filename:
```
detox my\ bad\ file.txt
```
You can also specify recursion (this works best on directories):
```
detox -r /music/transferred_from_elsewhere/
```
# Building Detox
Many distributions include a copy of detox with their packages. If you wish to
build it from scratch, you'll need the following tools:
- autoconf
- automake
- bison / yacc / byacc
- flex / lex
- gcc / clang
- make
- pkg-config / pkgconf
## Prerequisites
To install the needed packages on Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, and other Debian
derivatives, run:
```
sudo apt install autoconf automake bison flex gcc make pkg-config
```
To install the needed packages on macOS, run:
```
brew install autoconf automake bison flex gcc make pkg-config
```
On FreeBSD, run:
```
sudo pkg install autoconf automake gcc pkgconf wget
```
On NetBSD, run:
```
sudo pkgin install autoconf automake mozilla-rootcerts pkgconf wget
sudo mozilla-rootcerts install
```
On MSYS2, run:
```
pacman -S --needed base-devel gcc git mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
```
## Install Stable from GitHub Package
To build a stable copy of `detox`, run:
```
wget https://github.com/dharple/detox/releases/download/v2.0.0/detox-2.0.0.tar.gz
tar xzvf detox-2.0.0.tar.gz
cd detox-2.0.0
./configure
make
make install
```
If that fails during the configure or make steps, run:
```
autoreconf --install
./configure
make
make install
```
## Install Stable from Repository
To build a stable copy of `detox` from source, install the package `git`, then
run:
```
git clone -b 1.x https://github.com/dharple/detox.git
cd detox
autoreconf --install
./configure
make
make install
```
## Install Development from Repository
To build a development copy of `detox` from source, install the package `git`,
then run:
```
git clone -b main https://github.com/dharple/detox.git
cd detox
autoreconf --install
./configure
make
make install
```
## Uninstall
To remove a copy of `detox` that was installed via these methods, from the same
directory that you ran `make install`, run:
```
make uninstall
```
# Contact
For support, to report a defect, or to request a new feature, please use the
[GitHub Issues system].
[GitHub Issues system]: https://github.com/dharple/detox/issues/
[issue]: https://github.com/dharple/detox/issues/
[man page]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dharple/detox/main/man/detox.1.pdf