File path conversions - Windows to Linux +GRAMPS

[Tim H.]

On 07/07/2010 08:27 PM, NoOp wrote:
> While I'm in the process of upgrading my brother's WinXP computer, I've
> installed Gramps 3.2.3-1 so that he can compare/use. He currently uses
> Rootsmagic, so I exported as a GED and imported into Gramps. All is well
> on the Windows machine; all records came across (8758 people, 2145
> unique surnames) and the graphics (many) are appearing fine.
>
> I've exported the whole thing (including media) to a .gpkg (654.3MB) so
> that I can use on my linux systems. All of the entries came across w/o
> issues, but the problem is the media path/graphic naming conventions
> that he used. An example:
>
> C:\My Documents\My Pictures\<surname>  Geneology\<surname>,<firstname>
> <middlename_or_initial>  Certificate of Birth.jpg
>
> Some are even worse, and longer with added subfolders for individuals,
> pound (#) signs, etc., but that's pretty much convention he's used. Made
> sense to him so that he could easily look at the files in WinExplorer&
> see exactly what the files pertain to. Unfortunately the spaces, commas,
> periods, # signs et all are creating issues. My system reads them
> properly, i.e.:
>
> /home/<username>/<somename>_xml.gpkg.media/My Documents/My
> Pictures/<surname>  Geneology/<surname>,<firstname>
> <middleinitial>/<sirname>,<firstname>  <middleinitial>. Certificate of
> Birth.jpg
>
> But I'd like to figure out a way to clean all those up to no spaces,
> periods, commas, etc.
>
> Any suggestions on how I can batch convert all of those to
> path/filenames? Or am I doomed to having to go through each one
> individually?
>
>
>


I use this script I found on the net sometime ago.  Feel free to alter 
the definition of NEWLINE to your liking:


## Code Below ######################################

#!/bin/bash

if [ -n "$1" ]
then
   if [ -d "$1" ]
   then
     cd "$1"
   else
     echo invalid directory
     exit
   fi
fi

for i in *
do
   OLDNAME="$i"
   NEWNAME=`echo "$i" | tr ' ' '_' | tr A-Z a-z | tr ',' '_' | sed 
s/_-_/-/g| sed s/__/_/g`
   if [ "$NEWNAME" != "$OLDNAME" ]
   then
     TMPNAME="$i"_TMP
     echo ""
     mv -v -- "$OLDNAME" "$NEWNAME"
#    mv -v -- "$TMPNAME" "$NEWNAME"
   fi
   if [ -d "$NEWNAME" ]
   then
     echo Recursing lowercase for directory "$NEWNAME"
     $0 "$NEWNAME"
   fi
done


### End Code #########################################

Tim H.