[Vorbis] [sorta offtopic] Removing bad bytes from filenames

Chris Harrington (Personal) webkid at webkid.com
Mon Aug 20 14:35:38 PDT 2007


Larry Fenske wrote:
> You could also have used "tr", something like this:
> 
> for i in *Thou*18*
> do
>   j=`echo "$i" | tr -d "\277"`
>   if [ "$i" != "$j" ]
>   then
>     mv -i "$i" "$j"
>   fi
> done
Interesting. I saw "tr". Someone described "rename" as "tr/mv"...

Larry Fenske also wrote:
> I just now discovered that this should also work:
> 
> rename Thou`echo -ne "\277"` Thou *.ogg
> 
I had to change it to echo -ne "\0277" but yeah, that works really well. 
Go go secret bash magic.

Thanks.

-Chris


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