cp - Does not recognizning accent characters

Asked Jun 29 '19 at 16:30

Active Jun 29 '19 at 19:42

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I have written a simple script, to copy some files, and change there name:

#!/bin/bash
for directory in ./../old_files/*; do
    DIR_NAME=$(basename $directory)
    for file in $directory/*; do
        filename=$(basename -- "$file")
        cp -- $file "./${DIR_NAME}_m*${filename}" 1>/dev/null
    done
done

And it's working great with one problem. If file has an accent or name is escaped with slash, it returns:
cp: target 'xxx.pdf' is not a directory

Any ideas how to solve this?

edited Jun 29 '19 at 19:42

ctrl-alt-delor

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asked Jun 29 '19 at 16:30

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I also don't think your script works as well as you think it does. DIR_NAME could potentially be set to a non-directory file, your * in the cp command is going to be taken literally. – jesse_b Jun 29 '19 at 16:37
4

if directory contains whitespace your script will break. – jesse_b Jun 29 '19 at 16:43
1

Have you considered using find? – ctrl-alt-delor Jun 29 '19 at 19:44

cp - Does not recognizning accent characters

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