[AusNOG] Synology bulk replace characters

[Luke Thompson]

I'll give that a shot tomorrow; will mount and use convmv and see where that gets us to. 

Will make our usual toolbox a tad more usable. 

Thanks,

Luke Thompson
Systems Administrator

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> On 24 Feb 2016, at 5:13 PM, Andrew Van Slageren <andrew.vanslageren at deakin.edu.au> wrote:
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> +1 for convmv. I’ve struggled trying to use perl/bash(sed,etc) to normalise weird filename encodings when bulk migrating user facing file share data between different systems, but discovering convmv made it much easier to convert to UTF-8 as it just worked.
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> If you’re unable to/don’t want to run it directly on the NAS, consider NFS mounting the data on a Linux box and running it there.
>  
> Andrew Van Slageren
> Systems Administrator
> Deakin eSolutions
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> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Luke Thompson
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 4:13 PM
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> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Synology bulk replace characters
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> convmv is a possibility however takes a fair amount of modification to the NAS as it does not run a standard kernel; it's possible to have convmv installed however if we can use native commands life would definitely be far simpler.
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> Luke Thompson
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> On 24/02/2016 3:42 PM, Will Dowling wrote:
> There are a large number of files so manual renaming is highly undesirable, especially from the client's standpoint for our time.
> Has anyone had a similar experience and, if so, what was the workaround?
>  
> Have a look at convmv which you can use to make sure everything is in UTF-8.
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> Here’s an example which might help:
> http://serverfault.com/a/563427/65315
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> Will Dowling
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