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Thanks for pointing this out. I've tried different combinations but didn't get much luck. Looks like the original charset wasn't utf-8 after all. Perhaps is it set internally by the app generating...

I didn't know about these until you mentionned them. So i gave it a try using all possible charset available like this but none seems to work out. Either it returns the original character or an error...

I'm using UTF-8 on the destination (Linux Mint), just like on input. Not sure what charset woud be more appropriate to set before transferring the files. Any suggestion?



Doesn't work, but...

Thanks. I've read through these and found them quite informative. I'm wondering now how i can use this information somehow.

I suppose i'd need to make some tests and try out different wildcard...

The xml files are copied from an apple ipod touch.

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Some xml files that need to be parsed by a script may contain unknown characters in random positions. I can't copy/paste it to show an example because they disappear this way but in a text...

Aha.. makes all sense now. Thanks for explaining and that nice link

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This is probably going to be very simple but i came across something i can't quite explain. Here is the situation: i have a list of files, which i'd like to process one by one (get the size,...

From a performance perspective, did some benchmark tests: M.D.Ludwig's solution seems faster.

In the competition was xargs, the filter suggestion from ygemici (using egrep instead of the sed...

I mean you're probably right about the reason for the absence of output so i just figured a starting directory matching the regular expression should not be pruned and therefore the command should...

Thanks Radoulov, your explanation makes sense. Would some output be expected with the following set then ?

./201012/a/X01012/X
./201012/a/201012/Y
./201011/a/b/201011/Z

This works indeed (with a '.' after the first find though).

May be i'm being picky but isn't just 1 single call to find necessary ?

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I would like to look for files in certain sub-directories in order to avoid looking into possibly big ones.
The subdirectories to search are created monthly following the convention YYYYMM....

This is good enough for me, at leat it works with my setup. Thanks again

Thanks Annihilanic. Would you know how to circumvent the ls: Arg list too long problem ?

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Is there any simple way to get the last modified file in a set of 2 or more directories? This should return one file only (not 1 file per directory)

Thanks for your help