Re: shell script for removing unprintable characters in file names

From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo_at_nethead.se>
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 10:05:21 UTC 
On 2024-11-30 17:50, Carl Johnson wrote:
> Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am tasked with recovering hundreds or more files created with
>> unknown OSs and have unknown characters in the name, replaced with a
>> '?'.
>>
>> Like file?nam?.???
>>
>> Please, if you have such a script can you post or email it? Replacing
>> the unknown character with anything, like '-' or '_' using whatever
>> shell, sh, bash or csh.
> 
> You should look into the 'detox' port to see if it can do what you want.
> It is customizable if it the defaults don't work for you, although I
> just use the defaults.

It did exactly what I wanted, thank you.

Per