Hi everyone,
I have never used BRU before and I am sorry for the amateurish question, but I'm been notified by my IT department that a bunch of filenames in my "dropbox" are problematic for syncing on their platform and I need to rectify it as soon as possible (since things like lecture slide PDFs are failing to sync). Specifically, I need to sort through thousands of files in a bunch of nested subdirectories and remove all instances of: \ / < > : " | ? ! * & # ( ) +
Some of these have never been used; others, pretty regularly (looking specifically at & and ( ) in my PDF directory).
If someone could help me put together a proper regular expression that would find these, I would be extremely grateful! Then, as a quick solution, I'm hoping to use BNU to find all instances of these specific characters and maybe replace them with a - since that is still allowed. I imagine I will put the regex in the first box in the upper left corner of the app, and make sure "subfolders" is checked in the filters tab?
Any advice would be very appreciated!