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Date:      Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:22:16 +0100
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se>
Cc:        FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: shell script for removing unprintable characters in file names
Message-ID:  <86r06s1q8n.fsf@ltc.des.dev>
In-Reply-To: <95966dac-9d93-401f-9948-5fcb224a1e1f@nethead.se> (Per olof Ljungmark's message of "Sat, 30 Nov 2024 16:33:39 %2B0100")
References:  <95966dac-9d93-401f-9948-5fcb224a1e1f@nethead.se>

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Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> writes:
> I am tasked with recovering hundreds or more files created with
> unknown OSs and have unknown characters in the name, replaced with a
> '?'.
>
> Like file?nam?.???
>
> Please, if you have such a script can you post or email it? Replacing
> the unknown character with anything, like '-' or '_' using whatever
> shell, sh, bash or csh.

Look for convtools on github.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@FreeBSD.org



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