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Bash script to sanitize and transliterate filenames in Automator workflow
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| #!/bin/bash | |
| # activate extended pattern matching | |
| shopt -s extglob | |
| for f in "$@"; do | |
| filename="$(basename "$f")" | |
| dirpath="$(dirname "$f")" | |
| # Get file extension | |
| ext="${filename##*.}" | |
| if ([ "$ext" == "$filename" ]) then | |
| ext="" | |
| else | |
| # Prepend dot | |
| ext=".${ext}" | |
| fi | |
| # Get file name without extension | |
| filename="${filename%.*}" | |
| # Transliterate all characters | |
| filename=$(echo $filename | iconv -cs -f UTF-8 -t ASCII//TRANSLIT) | |
| # Replace spaces with dashes | |
| filename="${filename//+([[:space:]_.])/-}" | |
| # Remove non-alphanumeric characters except dashes | |
| filename="${filename//[![:alnum:]-]/}" | |
| # Append extension | |
| filename="$filename$ext" | |
| # Rename file | |
| mv "$f" "$dirpath/$filename" | |
| done |
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