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  1. PaperNick created this gist Jul 8, 2023.
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    from pathlib import Path


    special_chars = ('<', '>', ':', '"', '/', '\\', '|', '?', '*', '/')


    def replace_all(text, items):
    for i in items:
    text = text.replace(i, '')
    return text


    print('WARNING: Scaning large directories trees may take a lot of time.')

    for file in Path('.').glob('**/*'):
    if any(map(lambda char: char in file.name, special_chars)):
    new_name = replace_all(file.name, special_chars)
    print(f'Old name: {file}')
    print(f'New name: {file.with_name(new_name)}')
    print()
    file.rename(file.with_name(new_name))