renaming many Chinese files

[Ramiro Caso]

> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:14:52 -0400
> To: misha_78 at hotmail.com
> From: david+dated+1238555693.f4db0d at skytracker.ca
> CC: questions at freebsd.org; david+dated+1238356671.fa5de5 at skytracker.ca
> Subject: Re: renaming many Chinese files
> 
> that worked fine.  Thanks.

Glad it did. And sorry for the top-posting before (kind of new at this)

> > Just a very quick thought (the first that pops into my mind): you could
> > see which are the western characters that appear in the names, and then
> > use sed to substitute all non-matching characters with nothing,
> > something like:
> >
> > for i in *.jpg; do b="`echo $i | sed 's/[^CHAR_SET]//g'`"; mv $i $b; done
> >
> > (without
> > forgetting, obviously, to add . to the CHAR_SET, something like:
> > [^a-zA-Z0-9.]; if you figure out a less clumsy way, please, share!!)
> > I'm guessing that the initial 'P123' is just an example, or this will
> > horribly backfire. But I'm really, REALLY, taking a shot in the dark
> > here... (if you already thought of this, and it just doesn't work,
> > sorry for the useless pitch)
> >
> >
> >   
> >> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:57:51 -0400
> >> To: questions at freebsd.org
> >> From: david+dated+1238356671.fa5de5 at skytracker.ca
> >> CC: 
> >> Subject: renaming many Chinese files
> >>
> >> I have hundreds of jpg images where each image is named P123****.jpg
> >> where the **** are chinese characters. I can't open the file - it
> >> has to be renamed before I can open it. Evening if I could open it
> >> I don't want the Chinese part as the name.
> >>
> >> Each file starts with 3 or four western characters and then has 3 or
> >> four chinese characters, before the western .jpg extension.
> >>
> >> I want to to test each filename character by character
> >> to see if it is western, and then when the first Chinese Character is 
> >> found, have it simply rename the file to the 3 or four western-character 
> >> name + .jpg
> >>
> >> I can write most of the script but I don't know how to test for 
> >> western and/or Chinese characters.
> >>  
> >> I could run a script that would simply rename all the files to 
> >> a number in sequential order but I would rather use the existing
> >> starting name of the file if possible.
> >>
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