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. > > When I do tab for completion the characters 'escapes' to for example > "\264" (backward slash). > > 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. > > How can I rename these files in a not too manual way?
Hmmm... something like this:
% perl -e 'for(@ARGV) { ($f = $_) =~ 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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