sanitise_filenames

#! /usr/bin/env python3

# Copyright (c)2013 Laurence Tratt <http://tratt.net/laurie>
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# This program takes in one or more file / directory names and recursively
# sanitises filenames, replacing unusual characters with safer ones, and
# lower-casing all characters. If a sanitised filename conflicts with an
# existing file, no change is made, and both files are left as-is.


import os, sys


CHARS_MAP = {
  " " : "_",
  "(" : "",
  ")" : "",
  "[" : "",
  "]" : "",
  "'" : "",
  "\"" : "",
  ">" : "",
  "," : "_",
  "?" : "_",
  "!" : "",
  "&" : "and",
  "´" : "'",
  ":" : "_",
  "#" : ""
}


def sanitise(dp):
    for l in os.listdir(dp):
        lp = os.path.join(dp, l)
        rl = l.lower()
        for k, v in CHARS_MAP.items():
            rl = rl.replace(k, v)
        if l != rl:
            rlp = os.path.join(dp, rl)
            if os.path.exists(rlp):
                sys.stderr.write("Can't rename %s to %s: latter exists." % (lp, rlp))
            else:
                os.renames(lp, rlp)
                l = rl
                lp = os.path.join(dp, l)

        if os.path.isdir(lp):
            sanitise(lp)

sanitise(sys.argv[1])