Re: [maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 01:24:46PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:42:18PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote:
> > 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?
If you've found a recipe in perl, I can recommend /usr/bin/rename (part
of the perl package and, on my system, a link to /usr/bin/prename). The
syntax is "rename regex filespec" so you can say "rename 's/foo/bar/
bar.jpg". Maybe that'll help.
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Paul Saunders
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