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Using find or grep to locate filenames with accented characters from a different encoding system (Windows to Linux)

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I tried to tag late onto a question similar to mine on stackoverflow (Find Non-UTF8 Filenames on Linux File System) to elicit further replies, with no luck so far, so here goes again... I have the same problem as the OP in the link above and convmv is a great tool to fix one's own filesystem. My qu…

Error Output

> ls
Abc�def ÉÈéèáà-rest everest éverest

> ls -b
Abc\251def  ÉÈéèáà-rest  everest  éverest

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Fix for: Using find or grep to locate filenames with accented characters from a different encoding system (Windows to Linux)

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The GNU tools appear to have code that causes accented letters to be treated like their base letters when matching a regex character class, if supported by the character encoding. This is intended as a "do what I mean" sort of feature to make writin…

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