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o Microslop Crazy File Names to GNU/LinuxFarley Flud

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Subject: Microslop Crazy File Names to GNU/Linux
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Microslop users are total idiots, and nothing better shows this
than the file names which these idiots create.

But the GNU/Linux user often needs to transfer this Microslop
naming garbage onto his system and GNU/Linux provides a couple
of nice utilities to reduce the stench.

Detox:

https://github.com/dharple/detox

Sanity:

https://github.com/splitbrain/sanity/tree/master

(There could be more that I don't know about.)

I use sanity all the time with files from the Internet. Sanity
is simpler but Detox is more versatile.

Note how the names actually embody the disgust.

These are truly essential utilities.

--
Systemd: solving all the problems that you never knew you had.

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