Thomas Lindop
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> make project outline > tests are definitely wrong > may need to rewrite arg parsing
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Owl
The moon is bright. The owls are ready for the hunt.
Owl is a command line tool for removing unwanted characters from file names.
Say you want to backup some of your files on to a memory stick. Most likely
that memory stick uses FAT32 or exFAT as its file system, as this is the
most compatible with the most operating systems. But if any of your files
have special characters like : or ? in their names, this won't work (see
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/fileio/exfat-specification
for more details).
Alternatively, say you have a file that needs to be on an older computer that will not render some characters (like multi-character emoji) correctly1.
And what if you have either of these problems with potentially many files in a directory? Renaming every file would be tedious, and even the best bulk renaming tool will struggle to deal with all the possible invalid characters, at least if you don't want to manually write a very complex regular expression every time you encounter this problem.
Owl will hunt down any files with these issues and rename them as
appropriate - see man.md for usage.
- Or you just don't like having emoji in a file name.