Hello

I have several partitions (ext3,...) in my linux machine.

I recently upgraded to Opensuse 11 and now I have a NEW problem: some of my files have the spanish character "ñ" in their names and in Dolphin or in Konqueror and even in Konsole it appears like a "?".

The files that contain in their names that character will not work, for instance, a video will launch Kaffeine but will not be played.

When I try to change the name of the file in Dolphin, in Konqueror or in Konsole (even as root) a message is displayed saying that file does not exist. But it does!

In previous versions of Opensuse I had not that problem.

I am quite amazed with this, because I have no way to recover and use those files.

Please, help me!


Thanks in advance

Can you give a listing of some relevant files from a terminal session using

ls -l /directory_with_files_in_it

Of course:
"...
-rw-r--r-T 1 user users 871493632 ago 3 2006 The name of one of the files.avi
-rw-r--r-- 1 user users 733761536 may 25 02:22 The.name.of.another.file.avi
-rw-r--r-T 1 user users 739715256 ago 2 2006 Part_of_the_name_of_the_problematic_file_espa?ol.mpg
..."

Notice the "?" symbol in the last file.

Thank you very much for your already quick reply!

I didin't say this before. The command I used in Konsole to change the name is "rename". Maybe there is a different way to do it.
#rename "Part_of_the_name_of_the_problematic_file_espa?ol.mpg" new_name.mpg

Have you tried

mv Part_of_the_name_of_the_problematic_file_esp* correct_filename.mpg

?

I hadn't tried that but

IT WORKS!!!

The trick has been to use character "*" avoiding this way to write the problematic character:
#mv Part_of_the_name_of_the_problematic_file* new_name.mpg

I don't know if it was necessary to do so as root, but I did it that way.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE SOLUTION

I have found one inconvenient in one of my files: its name is something like this:
"-H_Part-of_the_name_of_the_problematic_file_espa?ol"

When I use the command:
#mv -H_Part-of_the_name_of_the_problematic_file* new_name.mp3
I get:
#mv: invalid option -- H

I have tried using "*" before and after some parts of the name.

I have also leaving the directory clear from other files and then type
#mv * new_name.mp3

But the message always is the same.

I wonder if this problem has a solution.


Thanks in advance for your help.

Funny workaround:
In the case of a media file open it in Amarok and there you can move the file to another directory, choosing also to replace certain characters and/or to use only ASCII.

It worked at least.

Anyway, I still wait for a more serious answer.

I can't create a suitably named file to test, but you should be able to escape the hyphen - something like

mv "\-Hrestoffilename..." outfile

As Amarok has solved my problem, I have not a suitable file to test your method.

Anyway, the thread will remain, so if I had the problem again, be sure I will test!


Thanks a lot for your help!