Hi Jeremy,
When I had the problem you were mentioning, I just put the source name between
quotations and then did the rename.
Example mv "Th!s is a bad name ".whatever ThisIsaGoodName.whatever.
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> From: Jeremy <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 3:28 PM
>Subject: [MLUG] correct weird characters in filenames
>
>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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