[Gllug] Making filenames 'FAT-safe' in bash

[Dylan]

On Tuesday 30 Nov 2010, - Tethys wrote:
> 
> Ahhh. Yes, that's because it's part of a larger script and only
> operates on the basename of a given file. Change the last line to:
> 
> 	sed 's,[^0-9a-z_./],,g;s/__*/_/g'
> 
Thank you muchly - that does exactly what I need! I suppose it's time I picked 
it apart to find out how ...

Dx


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