http://www.daif.net/linux-book/ar/arabic.html
On 4/8/06, Nadeem M. Khan <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 17:21, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Mohammad Al-Mossawi wrote:
> > Dear Lug,
> >
> > Anyone can tell me how to solve this problem. I got a zip file which i
> > extracted. The enclosed files names are in arabic so the result of the
> > extraction looks like.
> >
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 mossawi users 23342 2004-01-14 03:47 ??? ???.htm
> > -rwxrwxrwx 1 mossawi users 2932048 2003-02-14 03:14 ?ك? ??.wmv
> >
> > Now, I can't execute these files coz they dont have a proper name i
> > guess. I try renaming them, but how do you rename a file whith a funny name?
>
> ugly as this sounds.. I make a temp dir.. move all the files with the same extension except the one
> I can't get at into that dir.. then do..
>
> mv *.wmv newname.wmv
>
> Ugly, but it's worked for me numerous times..
What happens if you have more than one file with an arabic name and the
same extension?
Move using inode number instead of filename.
#ls -li
48685 -rwx------ 1 1000 users 2280 Jul 7 2004 ?ك? ??.wmv
#find /source-directory -inum 48685 -exec mv {} /target-directory \;
Regards,
NMK.
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