Detecting and removing all files that have invalid file names (not ascii names), that cannot be renamed or removed using ssh, in certain posix servers.

remove_files.py

"""
 Detecting and removing all files that have invalid file names (not ascii names),
 that cannot be renamed or removed using ssh, in certain posix servers.
"""
import glob
import os

def isascii(s):
    return all(ord(c) < 128 for c in s)

def files_to_rename(_from):
    return [f for f in glob.glob(_from) if os.path.isfile(f) and not isascii(f)]

"""
 Could be a regex or dir name.
 More about glob in: http://docs.python.org/library/glob.html
"""
_from = '*'
files = files_to_rename(_from)
for f in files:
    print 'Removing the file: "%s"' % f
    os.unlink(f)