Re: Odd characters in filename

2004-06-06 Thread Parv 
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
wrote Joachim Dagerot thusly...

 I unpacked a rar file and find myself standing with a lot of files
 with strange characters like accents etc.
 
 When I do tab for completion the characters 'escapes' to for example
 \264 (backward slash).

Bourne shell: sanename.sh ...

  http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/sh/sanename.sh


Perl: sanename, File::Name::Sanitize wrapper (requires knowledge of
modules installation due to lack of makefiles; path adjustment may
be needed in use lib q/path/ directive) ...

  http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/dist/sanename-1.01.tgz
  http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/dist/Parv-Util-1.00.tgz

  Some documentation:
http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/sanename.pod
http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/modules/File/Name/Sanitize.pm.pod
http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/modules/Parv/Util/Compile.pm.pod


See also...

  http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/modules/Parv/
  http://www103.pair.com/parv/comp/src/perl/modules/File/Name/Sanitize.pm

  http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=303814
  http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=277174

  
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22file+name%22+unusal+OR+weird+characters+group%3Acomp.unix.*
  
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=rename+unusal+OR+weird+characters+group%3Acomp.unix.*


 - Parv

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Odd characters in filename

2004-06-04 Thread Joachim Dagerot 
I unpacked a rar file and find myself standing with a lot of files
with strange characters like accents etc.

When I do tab for completion the characters 'escapes' to for example
\264 (backward slash).

I tried to write a small rename method in java but neither the
File.list() or by providing the filename in args[0] makes java
understand these odd characters.

How can I rename these files in a not too manual way?
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Re: Odd characters in filename

2004-06-04 Thread Matthew Seaman 
On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Joachim Dagerot wrote:
 I unpacked a rar file and find myself standing with a lot of files
 with strange characters like accents etc.
 
 When I do tab for completion the characters 'escapes' to for example
 \264 (backward slash).
 
 I tried to write a small rename method in java but neither the
 File.list() or by providing the filename in args[0] makes java
 understand these odd characters.
 
 How can I rename these files in a not too manual way?

Hmmm... something like this:

% perl -e 'for(@ARGV) { ($f = $_) =~ s/[^[:ascii:]]/_/g; rename $_, $f; }' \   
filename...

which will replace all non-ascii characters with '_'.  This doesn't
take any account of possible name collisions and it will probably get
it's knickers in a twist if you use it to rename whole directory
trees, rather than just files in the current directory.

Cheers,

Matthew

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