CODEWITHSUNDEEP
bashshellunixsed
cjramone
cjramone

Reputation: 1

How to substitute the characters à, è, ì, ò, ù in bash script

I've got to rename a file such that: IndennitàMalattia.doc by replacing the character à with a'.

The following sed command works in the command line, but not inside a .sh file.

echo $FILE | sed -e s/à/a\'/g

Can someone please help me? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1476

Answers (3)

Mark Reed
Mark Reed

Reputation: 95252

You may find this Perl script useful. It will rename specified files by turning all grave accents into apostrophes:

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use v5.14;
use autodie;
use warnings;
use warnings qw( FATAL utf8 );
use utf8;
use open qw ( :encoding(UTF-8) :std );
use charnames qw( :full :short );

use Unicode::Normalize;

# if no args specified, use example from question
@ARGV = qw(IndennitàMalattia.doc) unless @ARGV;  

foreach my $old_name (@ARGV) {
  (my $new_name = NFD($old_name)) =~ s/\N{COMBINING GRAVE ACCENT}/'/g;
  say qq{Renaming "$old_name" to "$new_name"};
  rename $old_name, NFC($new_name);
}

Upvotes: 0

NeronLeVelu
NeronLeVelu

Reputation: 10039

mv "${File}" "$( echo "${File}" | sed "s/à/a'/g;s/è/e'/g;s/ì/i'/g;s/ò/o'/g;s/ù/u'/g" )"

and any other accent char equivalent

Upvotes: 0

Avinash Raj
Avinash Raj

Reputation: 174706

Change your sed like below,

echo $FILE | sed "s/à/a'/g"

Upvotes: 2

Related Questions