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

[Ulrich Windl]

On 20 Aug 2007 at 14:07, Chris Harrington (Personal) wrote:

> I'm moving my Ogg Vorbis collection off of my Linux server and onto my 
> laptop. I plan on using iTunes to play my collection, but, that's a 
> whole 'nother can of worms.
> 
> I'm having trouble moving my complete collection over because dbPowerAmp 
> (an application I used to love) made some dumb decisions about naming my 
> files. For example, in track/album/artist names that contained a 
> question mark ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?") it would insert the octal 
> byte 0277; an upside-down question mark.
> 
> It was a curiosity in Windows, but it's a real headache now. I have a 
> LOT of files that I'm copying over, and I have a lot of these 
> poorly-named files to deal with.
> 
> I transfer the files across using a really basic netcat pipe:
> tar -c | nc :: nc | tar -x

In a first attempt, have you tried replaxing tar with zip/unzip? Most likely 
you'll have to fix your filenames on Linux before transferring.

> 
> but tar pukes on the files with bad filenames.
> 
> Like the example I cite above, I can't seem to actually pass the correct 
> parameter to rename to get it to remove \0277 from my filenames. I 
> really don't want to do this manually.

sed -e 's/[^-A-Z, 0-9]/_/g' # very brutal, but you get the idea...

Ulrich