Re: shell script for removing unprintable characters in file names

From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2024 19:22:16 UTC
Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> writes:
> 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.

Look for convtools on github.

DES
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