Hi: For some time I'm looking to find a method to remove unicode control characters like U+202A; U+202C; U+200F from filenames. I found lots of examples to do this programmatically with python, perl, even for VB and Java. I was looking to do this with bash, find, grep and/or even sed because I just never wrote code in python or perl. Can some kind soul please give me a hint how to proceed?
Oh well, Dolphin in KDE 4.7.0 lets me change the filenames manually without showing the actual control characters - you sort-of need to "feel" your way - which is OK. Dolphin interprets those characters as what they are: control characters - but manually file by file - I got hundreds - good grief! ls -la is so kind as to show the unicode characters as <U+202A> and so forth. Even mc shows at least dots for the unicode charcters, but no easy method or function to eliminate those chars from filenames - I mean a method simple enough and usable for simple-minded-non-perl-cracks-users like me. Thank y'all Eike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
