http://serverfault.com/questions/98731/bsd-remove-non-ascii-characters-from-all-files-in-a-directory-recursively
find dir -depth -exec rename -n 's/[^[:ascii:]]/_/g' {} \; | cat -v
you may need the cat -v to properly display any weird characters without
your terminal getting screwed.
if that prints acceptable substitutions change the -n to -v.
Michel-André
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Le 2012-04-20 15:28, Jeremy a écrit :
Does anyone know of a utility or easy command that can clean up crazy
characters in filenames? Ideally transliterate them to nearest UTF
equivalent, but even just replacing them with underscores is better than
nothing.
I know how to mass rename etc, but there are characters I can't decode
at all to even use in a command. I seem to remember something used to
exist to do this for files to be transferred to FAT drives, or vice
versa...
Hmm now that I think about it I guess I could do something like
rename 's/^[a-z|0-9]/_/i' *
(which may also be wrong have not tested it yet). Anyways, would like a
better solution that could preserve more of the filename, or alternate
approaches.
Thanks,
Jeremy
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