Recursively descend and rename files

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To be more general, you might want to verify that a filename is not all
special characters. I don't know what File.move will do when new_name
is just the directory name (i.e., the entire filename was replaced with
''), but I doubt it is what you want.

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From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz [mailto:ezra@yakima-herald.com] wrote:

Thanks for everyones Ideas on this one. It works perfectly. If anyone
has the need to do something similar heres the code:

def rename(filename)
  new_name = File.join(File.dirname(filename), fix_name(File.basename
(filename)))
  File.move(filename, new_name)
end

def fix_name(name)
        name.gsub!(/[\s_]/, "-")
        name.downcase!
        name.gsub!(/[^a-z0-9.-]*/, '')
        name.gsub!(/^-/,'')
end

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