Special Characters BASH/UNIX term support


 
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Old 05-21-2014
Special Characters BASH/UNIX term support

Trying to run this command:
Code:
find /Volumes/Archive/ -type f -name "Icon"

and get
Code:
/Volumes/Archive//New Business and Marketing/2010 /Creative/Image Library/Stuff for Sean/Cafe Heineken/logo_Café Heineken_03.jpg: No such file or directory

due to the accent on the filename. Is there a way around it without having to rename files?

Last edited by Franklin52; 05-22-2014 at 03:51 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
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Old 05-21-2014
You mean your find command produces that error message?
Or does another (which?) command produce it?
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Old 05-21-2014
One way would be to change to a locale that supports such an accent. You could also redirect such output on STDERR to /dev/null.
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