Renaming files in OS X for Windows or Unix compatibility #

Free

Remove All Illegal Characters from All Filenames in a Given Folder - Several regex approaches using bash, Name Mangler, and Automator
Find files with illegal windows characters in the name on Linux - Several bash oneliners

While the above approaches should cover most use case scenarios, none of them address all of the possible naming issues in Windows.

Fee

NameCleaner is specially designed to help move files to and from Windows and Unix [...] Preconfigured settings for MS-DOS, Unix and Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000 and XP.
A Better Finder Rename includes conversion to Windows NTFS/SMB compatible names.

/mac | May 16, 2017

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