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# 1  
Old 08-12-2018
Safely Remove Files with Special Chars
Hey Guys,

I'm swamped writing code for the forums:

Could someone write a script or command line to safely delete files with special chars in filenames from a directory:

Example:


Code:
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Apr 30 23:00  ?xA??
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 May  6 23:00 ??xA??
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Apr 30 23:00 ??yA??
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Jan  6  2018 ??>Ym?
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Mar 11 06:27 ??~Ym?
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Apr  1 06:44 ?z?,[?
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Apr 22 06:41 ?zPA??
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Jan  6  2018 Е\Ym?
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Jan  6  2018 КcYm?
-rw-r--r--   1 root     root         148 Jan  6  2018 Њz0??

Thanks.
# 2  
Old 08-12-2018
Safely means? And, special chars targets to non-[[:alnum:]]?
# 3  
Old 08-12-2018
Hello Neo,

Considering that ? character is present in your all junk files then following may help you.(Using inode for deleting it safely and removing the probability to deleting anything else since special characters have their own meaning too)

Code:
ls -lhtri  | awk -v s1="\\" '$NF~/\?/{print "Filename which will be deleting is "$NF;system("echo find -type f -inum " $1 " -exec rm -f {} " s1 ";")}'

Above is for safety purposes, once you see output is coming correct files, you could delete them then with following.

Code:
ls -lhtri  | awk -v s1="\\" '$NF~/\?/{print "Filename which will be deleting is "$NF;system("find -type f -inum " $1 " -exec rm -f {} " s1 ";")}'

Thanks,
R. Singh
# 4  
Old 08-12-2018
Safely means no wildcards which might delete other files in the directory.

Special char set in example in the post.
# 5  
Old 08-12-2018
A shell glob has [ ] that is a character set similar to the one in a RE.
A first character ! negates the following characters and ranges.
Code:
ls *[!-_.a-zA-Z0-9]*

matches file names that have a character that is not in the list.
An attempt with an RE follows:
Code:
ls | grep '[^[:alnum:][:punct:]]'

matches file names that have a character that is not in the given character classes.
Also [:print:] might be worth to try.
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Neo
# 6  
Old 08-12-2018
Code:
root@www:/# ls *[!-_.a-zA-Z0-9]*
??a???   2{0??   ?f???  0-jA??  @?vA??  p?;Ym?     ???@??  ??yA??  ??}0??  ?$HYm?  ?U#`V?  ??>Ym?  ??mA??  ?zPA??  ??mA??  ??????
?#????   ?xA??   ?U0??  @8nYm?  pGWA??  t???`??]?  ?.SYm?  ??~Ym?  ??fYm?  ?%NYm?  ?z?,[?  ??xA??  ?BJYm?  ??z0??  ??cYm?  ??RA??
??fYm?   ?u???   ?>,[?  @?d0??  pZr???  ?PRYm?     ?.TA??  ?^TA??  ??D,[?  ?2?Ym?  ?~SYm?  ??vYm?  ?l????  ??\Ym?  ?gTYm?  ??QYm?
 ?L???   ?pYm?  0?4A??  @?????  p?R0??  ??vYm?     ?o5Ym?  ?|E`V?  ?"60??  ?PNYm?  ??U???  ??????  ?afYm?  ??cYm?  ?&;`V?  ??????

lost+found:
root@www:/#

# 7  
Old 08-12-2018
Code:
root@www:/# ls | grep '[^[:alnum:][:punct:]]'
a??
#???
?fYm
 
 L??
 2{0?
 ?xA
 ?u??
 ?pYm
 ?f??
 ?U0?
 ?>,[
4A
0-jA
@8nYm
@?d0?
@????
@?vA
pGWA
pZr??
p?R0?
p?;Ym
t???`
?]
?PRYm
??vYm
??	@
?.SYm
?.TA
?o5Ym
??yA
?~Ym
?^TA
?|E`V
??}0?
??fYm
?D,[
?"60?
?$HYm
?%NYm
?2Ym
?PNYm
?U#`V
?z,[
?~SYm
??U??
??>Ym
??xA
??vYm
????
?	mA
?BJYm
?l???
?afYm
?zPA
??z0?
??\Ym
??cYm
?mA
?cYm
?gTYm
?&;`V
?????
??RA
??QYm
?????
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