TIL: convmv
Written by Sebastian Dümcke on
Tags: TIL
Since
ingesting disks that were in different computers with different operating
systems, sometimes the encoding used for the filenames are different.
The nifty convmv
utility can change the encoding of filenames. It is
used like so to convert from latin-1 Windows encoding to utf-8:
convmv -f latin-1 -t utf-8 -r /root/of/path
It prints information on the filename encoding and whatever changes it
will do. It will not perform any renaming until you re-run the command
by adding the --no-test
flag.