At least as of detox version 1.2.0, the filtering can be customized (the following commands/locations may need to be changed depending on your distro). Firstly:

cp /usr/share/detox/safe.tbl ~/mysafe.tbl

Next edit the file mysafe.tbl searching for the word "space" (around line 127) and change the underscore to a hyphen.

Now modify ~/.detoxrc e.g. as follows:

sequence hyphenated {
   safe {filename "/home/MY_USSERNAME/mysafe.tbl";};
   #wipeup {remove_trailing;};
};

(Replace "MY_USERNAME" of course...)

Now run the following command:

detox -vs hyphenated *

and you should be good to go :)

At least as of detox version 1.2.0, the filtering can be customized (the following commands/locations may need to be changed depending on your distro). Firstly:

cp /usr/share/detox/safe.tbl ~/mysafe.tbl

Next edit the file mysafe.tbl searching for the word "space" (around line 127) and change the underscore to a hyphen.

Now modify ~/.detoxrc e.g. as follows:

sequence hyphenated {
   safe {filename "/home/MY_USSERNAME/mysafe.tbl";};
   #wipeup {remove_trailing;};
};

(Replace "MY_USERNAME" of course...)

Now run the following command:

detox -vs hyphenated *

and you should be good to go :)

Edit 20170801: Detox seems to have some UTF-8 problems. Have created a few patches, emailed upstream and debian maints, now have to open a bug on some site called "github" or something - time to figure it out...