removeaccents.sh

#!/bin/bash

######################################
# REMOVES HUNGARIAN LETTER ACCENTS FROM FILENAMES IN CURRENT FOLDER
# Works with OSX special character representation
# ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6153345/different-utf8-encoding-in-filenames-os-x )
# Usage: 
# chmod +x removeaccents.sh
# ./removeaccents.sh
######################################## 

printf "Renaming files:\n"

for file in ./*; do

	if [ -f "$file" ]
        then
    		FILENAME=$(basename "$file")
    		
    		CLEANFILENAME=$(echo "$FILENAME" | tr "áéíóöőúüűáéíóöőúüű" "a\'e\'i\'o\'o\"o\"u\'u\"u\"aeiooouuu" | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9 \(\)_.-]//g' )
    			
		if [ "$FILENAME" != "$CLEANFILENAME" ]
		then
			printf "%s > " "$FILENAME"
			printf "%s\n" "$CLEANFILENAME"
			mv ./"$FILENAME" ./"$CLEANFILENAME"
		fi				
	fi
done

printf "done\n"