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bulk rename (or correctly display) files with special characters
I have a bunch of directories and subdirectories that contain files with special characters, like this file:
robbie@phil:~$ ls test�sktest.txt
test?sktest.txt
Find reveals an escape sequence:
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Understanding Unix file name encoding
I have a hard time understanding how the file name encoding works. On unix.SE
I find contradicting explanations.
File names are stored as characters
To quote another answer:
Several questions about ...
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Several questions about file-system character encoding on linux
Due to a lot of file exchange works between Windows (GBK encoding) and Linux (UTF-8 encoding), it will encounter character encoding issues easily, such as:
zip/tar files whose name contains chinese ...
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working with filenames in a different encoding over ssh
I'm ssh'ing to a remote system where a different encoding for the filenames (and for the users' locales) has been used. And this causes some problems.
Problems solved by matching the locale settings
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Bash/Korn shell script edited on Windows throws error '…^M: not found'
Some background on the issue:
I am new to scripting and wrote a simple Bash script in Windows using Notepad++.
cxStopAllServicesOnSERVER.sh
#usr/bin/bash
cd "/some/path"
echo "Hi. Logs can be found ...
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Script failing with “command not found: ^M”
When I try to run the following script in zsh, via the command /bin/zsh ~/.set_color_scheme.sh I get the following error:
command not found: ^M
The script has u+x permissions and it used to work on ...
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How can I set VIM's default encoding to UTF-8?
I'd like to contribute to an open source project providing translated strings. One of their requirements is that contributors must use UTF-8 as the encoding for the PO files.
I'm using VIM 7.3 on ...
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What charset encoding is used for filenames and paths on Linux?
Does it depend on what file system I use? For example, ext2/ext3/ext4 but also what happens when I insert one of those "joliet" CD-ROMs with ISO 9660? I've heard that POSIX contains some sort of spec ...
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How to print all printable ASCII chars in CLI?
How can I list all the printable ASCII characters in the terminal?
