Re: script doesn't work (renaming files)

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Lars Grobe wrote:
  >Hi there,
  >
  >I have to rename a lot of files containing special
  >characters. I've got a script to do that, but it
  >doesn't work here (unexpected end of file etc..).
  >
  >BTW: How do I get a list of files containing some
  >special characters (äÄöÖüÜß)? Will the "find" do this
  >job?
 
Yes, if you can type the character in, or cut and paste it into the
command line.

If you can't type the character but know its ASCII value, find the octal value
and use that.

For instance, to find names containing `F', which is ASCII 70 (decimal),
0106 octal:

  find . -name \*$'\106'\*

(The stars need backslashes to protect them from shell expansion and bash
translates \ooo to a character if \ooo occurs inside $''.)

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