[thelist] Upload file with hyphen in name

[Joshua Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Casey
> Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 9:26 AM
> 
> > a. Naming conventions should never be system critical items
> > 2. Escape all special characters
> 
> a.  Yes, good advice.  Maybe I overstated... they have 
> thousands of images with hyphens in the name already, and 
> telling them they have to rename them all would mean loosing 
> the client.

Casey,

Renaming thousands of files isn't really all that hard if you have a program
to perform the actions.  I needed to change @20 to spaces on a few thousand
files a while back and I create a workable solution via Cold Fusion.  Even
if you don't use Cold Fusion, perhaps you can utilize the concept, if
necessary:

-- file: fixfilenames.cfm

<cfparam name="attributes.directory" default="#ExpandPath('.')#">

<cfdirectory action="LIST" directory="#attributes.directory#"
name="get_files">

<cfoutput query="get_files">
  <cfif name NEQ "." AND name NEQ "..">
    <cfif name CONTAINS "@20">
      Fixing: #name#<br />
      <cffile action="RENAME" source="#attributes.directory#\#name#"
destination="#Replace('#attributes.directory#\#name#', '@20', ' ', 'ALL')#">
    </cfif>
    <cfif type IS "Dir">
      <cf_fixfilenames directory="#attributes.directory#\#name#">
    </cfif>
  </cfif>
</cfoutput>

-- file: test.cfm

<cf_fixfilenames directory="c:\testfolder\">


Essentially what happens is that I would call test.cfm, which would launch
fixfilenames.cfm.  Fixfilenames.cfm would then pull up a directory list and
perform a rename on all the files.  If it encountered a sub-directory, it
would call itself using the sub-directory as the new starting point.  

The code I used specifically solved my problem, but could easily be adapted
to solve most file renaming tasks.

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