The detox utility renames files to make them easier to work with.
It removes spaces and other such annoyances.
For example, if you have a file named “Favorite Cat Video.mp4” and want to use mplayer to watch it, because of the empty spaces, mplayer can’t play it. You have to “fill-in” the empty spaces in the file name. “Favorite_Cat_Video.mp4”
So, rather than fixing the problem by manually renaming all the file names, detox will fix the problem.
Another example: leafpad ~/Christmas/shopping list.txt
- it won’t open
keith@box ~ $ detox ~/Christmas
- now it will open because detox filled in the empty space: shopping_list.txt
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pamac install detox
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If you want to detox EVERYTHING in a directory, just run detox with the -r flag.
Example: keith@box ~ $ detox -r ~/Music
All directories and ALL files in the directories will be “fixed”.
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Without the -r flag, it will only detox the directory, not the contents.
Example:
keith@box ~ $ ls ~/Music
Pink Floyd - Animals
keith@box ~ $
keith@box ~ $ detox ~/Music
keith@box:~$ ls ~/Music
Pink_Floyd-Animals
keith@box ~ $
Now you can look inside the folder and see NONE of the files were detoxed.
keith@box ~ $ ls -1 ~/Music/Pink_Floyd-Animals
01 - Pink Floyd - Pigs On The Wing (Part One).mp3
02 - Pink Floyd - Dogs.mp3
03 - Pink Floyd - Pigs (Three Different Ones).mp3
04 - Pink Floyd - Sheep.mp3
05 - Pink Floyd - Pigs On The Wing (Part Two).mp3
keith@box ~ $
If you only want to detox the contents of ONE directory, you can run detox without the -r flag
keith@box ~ $ detox ~/Music/Pink_Floyd-Animals
keith@box ~ $ ls -1 ~/Music/Pink_Floyd-Animals
01-Pink_Floyd-Pigs_On_The_Wing-Part_One-.mp3
02-Pink_Floyd-Dogs.mp3
03-Pink_Floyd-Pigs-Three_Different_Ones-.mp3
04-Pink_Floyd-Sheep.mp3
05-Pink_Floyd-Pigs_On_The_Wing-Part_Two-.mp3
keith@box ~ $
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keith@box ~ $ detox -h
usage: detox [-hLnrvV] [-f configfile] [-s sequence] [–dry-run] [–inline] [–special]
file [file …]
-f configfile choose which config file to use
-h --help this message
--inline run inline mode
-L list available sequences and exit
with -v ... dump sequence contents
-n --dry-run do a dry run (don't actually do anything)
-r be recursive (descend into subdirectories)
--remove-trailing (deprecated)
remove trailing _ and - before a period
-s sequence choose which sequence to detox with
--special work on links and special files
-v be verbose
-V show the current version
keith@box ~ $
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