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====== sanity.pl ======

[[http://www.splitbrain.org/Programming/Perl/sanity/index.php|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:**

<code>
  -l convert to lowercase
  -e extended cleaning (removes brackets as well)
</code>

**Example:**

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

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