Hidden characters in exported image filename

I am naturally curious how an export of a image from Keynote results in embedded carriage return characters (?) in filenames on a UNIX system. Granted the Finder will allow anything but a colon in a filename, but macOS at the Terminal level does not. Also, it is not good form to have two periods in a filename in UNIX, though again, the Finder is oblivious.

In the Terminal, using the Zsh shell, you can clean up those filenames. Change into the directory location containing those bogus filenames. The ^M that you see below is actually the combination of ctrl-V and then ctrl-M and is a representation for a carriage return character in macOS.

autoload zmv
zmv '^M*' '${f//^M/}'

This basically says take any file in the current folder location that contains at least one carriage return character and rename the file without those unwanted characters in the name.

So ?test_images.?001.jpeg becomes test_images.001.jpeg.

smgraham7 wrote:

And Keynote defaults two periods in the exported filename when exporting as images.

Sigh.

I have submitted a bug report. We'll see.

Thanks again.