Re: shell script for removing unprintable characters in file names

On 11/30/24 08:33, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> 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.
> 

Perhaps you just need to set your terminal to UTF:

export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8

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