DETOX(1) BSD General Commands Manual DETOX(1)NAMEdetox — clean up filenames
SYNOPSISdetox [-hnLrv] [-s -sequence] [-f -configfile] [--dry-run] [--special]
file ...
DESCRIPTION
The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with. It
removes spaces and other such annoyances. It'll also translate or
cleanup Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1) characters encoded in 8-bit ASCII, Unicode
characters encoded in UTF-8, and CGI escaped characters.
Sequences
detox is driven by a configurable series of filters, called a sequence.
Sequences are covered in more detail in detoxrc(5) and are discoverable
with the -L option. Some examples of default sequences are iso8859_1 and
utf_8.
Options
The main options:
-f configfile
Use configfile instead of the default configuration files for
loading translation sequences. No other config file will be
parsed.
-h --help Display helpful information.
-L List the currently available sequences. When paired with -v
this option shows what filters are used in each sequence and
any properties applied to the filters.
-n --dry-run
Doesn't actually change anything. This implies the -v
option.
-r Recurse into subdirectories.
-s sequence
Use sequence instead of default.
--special Works on special files (including links). Normally detox
ignores these files.
-v Be verbose about which files are being renamed.
-V Show the current version of detox.
Deprecated Options
Deprecated Options are options that were available in earlier versions of
detox but have lost their meaning and are being phased out.
--remove-trailing
Removes _ and - after .'s in filenames. This was first pro‐
vided in the 0.9 series of detox. After the introduction of
sequences, it lost its meaning, as you could now determine
the properties of wipeup through a particular sequence's con‐
figuration. It presently forces all instances of the wipeup
filter to use remove trailing, regardless of what's actually
in the config files.
FILES
detoxrc The system-wide detoxrc file.
~/.detoxrc A user's personal detoxrc. Normally it extends the sys‐
tem-wide detoxrc, unless -f has been specified, in which
case, it is ignored.
iso8859_1.tbl The default ISO 8859-1 translation table.
unicode.tbl The default Unicode (UTF-8) translation table.
EXAMPLESdetox-s iso8859_1 -r -v -n /tmp/new_files
Will run the sequence iso8859_1 recursively, listing any
changes, without changing anything, on the files of
/tmp/new_files.
detox-c my_detoxrc -L -v
Will list the sequences within my_detoxrc, showing their fil‐
ters and options.
SEE ALSOdetoxrc(5), detox.tbl(5).
HISTORYdetox was originally designed to clean up files that I had received from
friends which had been created using other operating systems. It's triv‐
ial to create a filename with spaces, parenthesis, brackets, and amper‐
sands under some operating systems. These have special meaning within
FreeBSD and Linux, and cause problems when you go to access them. I cre‐
ated detox to clean up these files.
AUTHORSdetox was written by Doug Harple.
BUGS
If, after the translation of a filename is finished, a file already
exists with that same name, detox will not rename the file. This could
cause a problem with the max_length filter, if it was imperative that the
files be cut down to a certain length.
Long options don't work under Solaris or Darwin.
An error in the config file will cause a segfault as it's going to print
the offending word within the config file.
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