Re: [maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames

2011-08-12 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 10 August 2011 19:04:57 Mike McClain wrote: > > > > myuser@mysytem:~/path-name-of-unicode-files$ rename -n 's/\x{202A}//' * > > > > I get no output although x{202A} is definitely the first char in the > > filename. This definitely needs more than a cursory view into perl - > > exact

Re: [maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames

2011-08-10 Thread Mike McClain
> myuser@mysytem:~/path-name-of-unicode-files$ rename -n 's/\x{202A}//' * > > I get no output although x{202A} is definitely the first char in the filename. > This definitely needs more than a cursory view into perl - exactly what I > wanted to avoid. > Maybe I better post in a perl mailinglist

Re: [maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames

2011-08-10 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 10 August 2011 06:53:58 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 01:24:46PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:42:18PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > For some time I'm looking to find a method to remove unicode control > > > characters li

Re: [maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames

2011-08-10 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Wednesday 10 August 2011 06:53:58 Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 01:24:46PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:42:18PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > > Hi: > > > > > > For some time I'm looking to find a method to remove unicode control > > > characters li

Re: [maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames

2011-08-10 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 01:24:46PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:42:18PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > > Hi: > > > > For some time I'm looking to find a method to remove unicode control > > characters like U+202A; U+202C; U+200F from filenames. > > I found lots of exampl

Re: [maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames

2011-08-09 Thread Mike McClain
On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 12:42:18PM -0400, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > Hi: > > For some time I'm looking to find a method to remove unicode control > characters like U+202A; U+202C; U+200F from filenames. > I found lots of examples to do this programmatically with python, perl, even > for VB and Java.

[maybe OT] unicode control characters in filenames

2011-08-09 Thread Eike Lantzsch
Hi: For some time I'm looking to find a method to remove unicode control characters like U+202A; U+202C; U+200F from filenames. I found lots of examples to do this programmatically with python, perl, even for VB and Java. I was looking to do this with bash, find, grep and/or even sed because I j