[X4U] removing accented characters from filenames

[Daly Jessup]

At 8:56 AM -0500 31/10/06, Matt Gregory wrote:
>I'm trying to convert all my music files to more unix-friendly file 
>names.  So far it's been pretty simple using a couple of 'tr' 
>commands to replace spaces with underscores, change upper case to 
>lower, and remove unwanted characters.  But my problem comes when 
>I'm trying to deal with accented characters.

It's extremely easy to do this in "A Better Finder Rename", available 
at <http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/11366>
though of course that way is not as much fun as figuring out how to 
do it in Terminal.
But it would get the job done in a couple of minutes at most.
:-)

Daly
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