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detox-1.4.5

utility designed to clean up filenames

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Description

detox is a program that renames files to make them easier to work with under Unix and related operating systems. Spaces and various other unsafe characters (such as "$") get replaced with "_". ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) characters can be replaced as well, as can UTF-8 characters. More details are contained in the detox.1 man page.

Package information

Ports path
sysutils/detox
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
sysutils
Available flavors
None listed

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