pathcify

Rust CLI tool to recursively slugify file and directory names using dots, removing special characters and normalizing names.

Available on crates.io.

For examples:

• La Quête d'Ewilan vol.1 : D'un monde à l'autre-·/_,:; (1), [Bottero, Pierre]Author @{1} <book> ?!//& to la.quete.dewilan.vol.1.dun.monde.a.lautre-._.1.bottero.pierre.author.{1}.book with lowercase
• 00 - Préface to 00-Preface
• Góðan daginn to Godan.Daginn

Requirements

• Rust

Installation

You can install pathcify with Cargo.

cargo install pathcify

Usage

You can execute pathcify on a directory or a file:

pathcify /path/to/dir

All files and directories will be recursively pathcified, converting their names to a format suitable for URLs or filenames.

• Remove all special characters
• Replace all spaces with a dot
• Remove all dots at the beginning and the end of the string
• Replace all dots that are repeated more than once with a single dot
• Keep - and _ characters (and remove spaces before and after them)
• Full lowercase with option -l

Options

pathcify --help

• -l, --lowercase: Convert all names to lowercase.
• -h, --help: Print help information.
• -V, --version: Print the version of the tool.

Build and publish

Build and test the package:

cargo build --release
cargo test

Test publishing:

cargo publish --dry-run

Publish the package to crates.io:

cargo publish

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.