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find-bad-url-filenames
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A node executable to find any filenames recursively with characters that don't belong in URLs
A node script for recursively finding filenames that include reserved filename characters. The process will exit with error code 1 if a bad filename is found.
$ npm install -g find-bad-url-filenames
or
$ npx find-bad-url-filenames
Then...
// Search thru specific path
$ find-bad-url-filenames [path]
$ npx find-bad-url-filenames [path]
or
// Search thru current folder
$ find-bad-url-filenames
$ npx find-bad-url-filenames
Searching through a folder in the home directory called "project" that has a file by the name of bad*file.#
$ find-bad-url-filenames ~/project
Outputs:
Found bad filenames:
[
'/Users/johndoe/project/bad*file.#'
]
FAQs
A node executable to find any filenames recursively with characters that don't belong in URLs
The npm package find-bad-url-filenames receives a total of 2 weekly downloads. As such, find-bad-url-filenames popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that find-bad-url-filenames demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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