Slugify Files & Directories

A python application to slugify files & directories.

General Info

This project slugifies files & directories using slugify and optionally tries to compress the path, for easy distribution and (heavily opinionated) beautiful looking folders. It's not the prettiest application ever, but it works and is in a single file, for easy throwing around.

Example

$ tree
.
├── BAZ Ä Ö Ü.txt
└── FOO
    └── FOO BAR.txt

1 directory, 2 files

$ slug -rz .
info: move ./BAZ Ä Ö Ü.txt to baz-ae-oe-ue.txt
info: move ./FOO to foo
info: move foo/FOO BAR.txt to bar.txt

$ tree
.
├── baz-ae-oe-ue.txt
└── foo
    └── bar.txt

1 directory, 2 files

Installation

Download slug.py. Optionally create an alias in bash:

alias slug="/path/to/slug.py"

Or powershell:

New-Alias slug "C:\Path\To\slug.py"

Usage

usage: slug [-h] [-r] [-f | -F] [-z | -Z] [-s | -x | -c] [-n] [-d] [-v] path [path ...]

Slugify file and directory names

positional arguments:
  path                  paths to files and directories

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r, --recursive       recurse into directories
  -f, --files           rename files only
  -F, --dirs            rename directories only
  -z, --compress        try to deduplicate path name (race condition)
  -Z, --force-compress  try to deduplicate entire path name
  -s, --standard        enable standard filter (default)
  -x, --posix           enable posix filter
  -c, --strict          enable strict filter
  -n, --dry-run         perform a trial run with no changes made
  -d, --debug           show debug output
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

example: slug -rn "File with Spaces.txt" "DIRECTORY"