Re: shell script for removing unprintable characters in file names

On 2024-11-30 17:10, paul beard wrote:
> I read the question as how to recover and rename the files to remove the 
> out of bounds characters, not how to view the names.

Yes, exactly, viewing is doable, batch recovering is what I'm after.

> On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 8:04 AM D'Arcy Cain <darcy@druid.net 
> <mailto:darcy@druid.net>> wrote:
> 
>     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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