Sanitize / normalize a string for use as a safe filename.
Usage: sanitize <input-text>
Examples:
sanitize This Is a TEXT-->this-is-a-textsanitize THIS_is a+a-TEXT-->this-is-a-text
Caution: Different input strings can result in identical output.
All punctuation and spaces are converted to single -. No -s are left at the beginning or end of output string. All capital letters are converted to lowercase (see Issue #1).
sanitize 1 2 3-->1-2-3
Numbers are not affected.
sanitize Łączność-->lacznosc
Diacritics are converted to their basic letters of the English alphabet.
If punctuation is getting in the way of the shell interpreting input correctly, escape "input" with quotes.
sanitize abc; de-->bashthrows an errorde: command not foundsanitize "abc; de"-->abc-deworks as expected
san.sh <filenames> is just a wrapper that parses filenames into names and extensions, calls sanitize on both and renames original files (will not overwrite existing files).
All non-ASCII chars will be transformed to their ASCII equivalents, e.g.:
Kąt na łące żre źrebię --> kat-na-lace-zre-zrebie
This is achieved by the function
runes.Remove(runes.In(unicode.Mn))
which strips all unicode runes of the [Mark, Nonspacing] characters they are possibly combined with. E.g:
ą is actually a combined with 0328 Below_Attached # Mn ( ̨ ) COMBINING OGONEK.
(see here for a complete list of Mn characters).
Curiously, however, unlike all other Polish diacritic characters Ł and ł are not created by combining L or lwith any [Mark, Nonspacing] character but are characters of their own. Therefore they need to be handled separately, as
runes.Remove(runes.In(unicode.Mn))
will not work for them, i.e.,
runes.In(unicode.Mn)
fails on them and therefore there are no runes to remove by
runes.Remove()
DEVONthink-Sanitize-Filenames.applescript sanitizes names of selected DEVONthink records, while setting the Finder Comment fields to original file names. Caution: the contents of the field is overwritten.