File name padronizer

A really simple script to padronize file name substituting spaces and other characters with underlines.

How does it work?

The script has 3 arguments:

• path(str): The path to the folder where you want do padronize the file's names
• remove_accent(bool): If you want to remove special characters such as "~,^,´, etc from letters. Default value is True
• lower(bool): Change the file to lowercase. Default value is True
• recursive(bool): The script will also process files in subfolders in the path provided. Default value is False.

Requirements:

• Python
• Unidecode. Execute python -m pip install unidecode to install it in your current environment

Running the script

Example file: foo Bar BAZ - 2002/05+01.pdf"

python file_padronizer.py --path path/to/the/files --remove_accents True --lower True --recursive True returns "foo_bar_baz_2002_05_01.pdf"

python file_padronizer.py --path path/to/the/files --remove_accents False --lower False --recursive True returns "FOO_BAR_BAZ_2002_05_01.pdf"

obs: Please be aware that if you pass a path with multiple subfolders and the recursiveparameter setted to True the script may take some time to process all the files.