On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 03:09:38PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > > What do you do when you need to transfer files with non-English > filenames (with SCP, SFTP or Rsync)? It's kind of difficult to type the > same filename twice on the same command line in two different encodings. I try to avoid, quite frankly (probably easier to in Franch than in other languages). Until now, I used iconv to translate the filename and rename from one to the other. Something like (sorry, the real script's at work): newfname=`echo "$1" | iconv -f UTF-8 -t ISO_8859-15` if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then echo "Error: iconv failed. Skipping." exit fi mv $1 $newfname Since then, I've learned of the existence of convmv, which converts filenames (not file content), directories and filesystems to diffrent encodings. http://freshmeat.net/projects/convmv/ Haven't had a chance to give it a whirl but I will this week. You might also want to check out the GNU recode program: http://www.gnu.org/software/recode/recode.html Emmanuel
