iso-8859-2 encoding problem on filesystem

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:

>
> I have got some songs in Polish from the Internet, recorded them on CD.
>
> I am able to play them by drugging by mouse to RealPlayer.
>
> But I can not open them in another way or copy them under a different file
> name to hard drive. They contain some Polish signs in iso-8859-2 (I guess)
> which are displayed in terminal window as ?'s . Midnight Commander used to
> deal perfectly well with similar problems but not this time. It looks like
> the system does not recognize the file names.
>
> How to make a copy of them under a different filename?

    Use wildcards in a shell, e.g.:

for file in *.mp3
do
   newname=${file//[^a-zA-Z0-9.-_]/}
   mv "$file" "$newname"
done

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