Changing filenames from Greeklish => Greek (subprocess complain)

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Τη Τρίτη, 4 Ιουνίου 2013 11:47:01 π.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Steven D'Aprano έγραψε:

> Please run these commands, and show what result they give:

nikos at superhost.gr [~/www/data/apps]# ls -l *.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 nikos nikos 3511233 Jun  3 12:07 \305\365\367\336\ \364\357\365\ \311\347\363\357\375\375.mp3
-rw-r--r-- 1 nikos nikos 3511233 Jun  4 11:54 ΞΟ
ΟΞ�\ Ο
      ΞΏΟ.mp3

nikos at superhost.gr [~/www/data/apps]# alias ls
alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'

nikos at superhost.gr [~/www/data/apps]# printf %q\n\n *.mp3
$'\305\365\367\336 \364\357\365 \311\347\363\357\375\375.mp3'nn$'\316\225\317\205\317\207\316\256 \317\204\316\277\317\205 \316\231\316\267\317\203\316\277\317\215.mp3'nnnikos at superhost.gr [~/www/data/apps]# ls -b *.mp3
\305\365\367\336\ \364\357\365\ \311\347\363\357\375\375.mp3  ΞΟ
ΟΞ�\ Ο
      ΞΏΟ.mp3

please explain what this comamnd does.

I deliberately placed the same .mp3 file twice.

The first is after renaming it to greek chars and uploaded from within my Win8 machine via FileZilla to the webhost server
The latter after renaming the file from within the remote linux machine.

Seems that the way the system used to actually rename the file matters.


> If all else fails, you could just rename the troublesome file and 
> hopefully the problem will go away:
> mv *Ο.mp3 1.mp3
> mv 1.mp3 Eυχή του Ιησού.mp3

Yes, but why you are doing it it 2 steps and not as:

mv *Ο.mp3 'Eυχή του Ιησού.mp3'