How to remove a non printable name in Bash?
The file has a name, but it’s made of non-printable characters. If you use ksh93, bash, zsh, mksh or FreeBSD sh, you can try to remove it by specifying its non-printable name. First ensure that the name is right with: ls -ld $’\\177′ If it shows the right file, then use rm: rm $’\\177′
How to batch rename file names in shell?
I’m trying to find a way to batch rename file names which originally contains Japanese characters, which are non-printable in my shell.There is clearly something I’m missing here in understanding how regex works, in this use case, When I run ls I have this : And ls -ldb * give me this:
Can a special character be entered in a file name?
There is a class of characters, which simply cannot be entered appropriately. As you cannot enter the character you cannot enter the files name and therefore all the methods described above fall short. It is still possible to reference them by using their Inode.
Is there a way to rename a Perl file?
If you have the Perl rename, you can transpose this to rename your files: ( rename prefers $ for group references). Thanks for contributing an answer to Unix & Linux Stack Exchange!
Why do I need to delete files with non ASCII names?
I’m guessing that the files you want to delete contain ASCII control characters, as opposed to non-ASCII characters. This is an important distinction: if you delete filenames containing non-ASCII characters, you may blow away legitimate files that just happen to be named in another language.
How to delete file containing invalid characters in Windows?
There is a Microsoft KB article listing possible ways to delete such files at: The way I typically use is the native API method: The : is a reserved character on NTFS, the native API method I mentioned above is the recommended way to delete such files. I guess you can try the 8.3 name?
Is there a way to remove files from the containing Directory?
Doing rm -r or rm -rf on the containing directory should still work, but if you just want to remove a single file you can try this. (Another solution, if there are other files in the directory that you want to keep, is to move all the other files into a temporary directory, then nuke and recreate the directory and move the other files back.)