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replace spaces with hyphens, lowercase all characters

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##SpacesJS

This is a little Node.js program for renaming files in the current working directory. It replaces spaces with hyphens and converts all uppercase characters to lowercase ones.

Technically, the regular expression selects all whitespace (spaces, tabs, linefeeds, and carriage returns) and hyphens in any order. These groups of characters will be replaced with a SINGLE hyphen, and then JavaScript converts all uppercase characters to lowercase ones. This RegEx pattern accounts for the use-case in which a hyphen precedes or follows a space, for example feminism -lol.png. A previous iteration of this program did not account for this scenario, so it could potentially produce filenames such as feminism--lol.png which is not horrible, but it is certainly more cumbersome than a file which did not contain multiple hyphens in a row.

Thanks to Tim Spinks for making valuable RegEx suggestions.