Re: [sorta offtopic] Removing bad bytes from filenames

On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 02:07:05PM -0500, Chris Harrington (Personal) wrote:

> Like the example I cite above, I can't seem to actually pass the
> correct parameter to rename to get it to remove \0277 from my
> filenames. I really don't want to do this manually.

Do you have Perl's rename installed?

$ rename
Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames]

The following will remove any non ASCII characters from filenames in
the current directory:

   rename -v 's/[^ -~]//g' ./*

Add a "-n" to the options to see what it would do before you let it
rip, so that you know you'll be happy with the results.

If you have a directory tree to do this to...

   find ./dir_root -type f | rename -v 's/[^ -~]//g'

where ./dir_root is the root directory of the tree.

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Paul Martin <[email protected]>