Sanity is a Perl script to rename files and directories to sane names. It strips special chars and whitespaces and converts german umlauts to their ASCII equivalents.

This tool is probably only useful if your locale is set to ISO-8859-1

Usage:

$>  sanity.pl [options] <file(s)>

The argument can be files and directories. Directories will be changed recurseively. If a renamed version of a file already exists the renaming will be skipped.

Options:

  -l convert to lowercase
  -e extended cleaning (removes brackets as well)

Example:

The following will recursivly convert all files in the directory data to a format compatible with DokuWiki:

$> sanity.pl -l -e /path/to/data