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shell script error (sed)

I am trying to replace some bad characters in a filename but have trouble getting it to work.

I currently have

Code:

for file in /somefolder/*

do

mv "$file" $(echo "$file" | sed 's/\xE4/ä/g')

done

This causes missing operand after filename. So I cut it down to find the problem.

Code:

for file in /somefolder/*

do

echo "$file" | sed 's/\xE4/ä/g'

done

Now I get

Code:

sed: -e expression #1, char 10: unterminated `s' command

Everything works fine if I trigger the same sed statement manually in the folder

Code:

ls | sed 's/\xE4/ä/g'

Solution found as an extra program!

Code:

$urpmi convmv

$convmv --notest -r - f ISO_8859-1 -t UTF-8 somefolder/*

-r makes it recursive
--notest makes it do it for real. Skip this to do a trial run