Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 10:55:49 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Joachim Dagerot <freebsd@dagerot.nu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd characters in filename Message-ID: <20040604095549.GF85236@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200406040941.i549fdv15239@thunder.trej.net> References: <200406040941.i549fdv15239@thunder.trej.net>
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On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
> I unpacked a rar file and find myself standing with a lot of files
> with strange characters like accents etc.
>=20
> When I do tab for completion the characters 'escapes' to for example
> "\264" (backward slash).
>=20
> I tried to write a small rename method in java but neither the
> File.list() or by providing the filename in args[0] makes java
> understand these odd characters.
>=20
> How can I rename these files in a not too manual way?
Hmmm... something like this:
% perl -e 'for(@ARGV) { ($f =3D $_) =3D~ s/[^[:ascii:]]/_/g; rename $_,=
$f; }' \ filename...
which will replace all non-ascii characters with '_'. This doesn't
take any account of possible name collisions and it will probably get
it's knickers in a twist if you use it to rename whole directory
trees, rather than just files in the current directory.
Cheers,
Matthew
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