Qshell and special characters

[NihilVerum]

Hello everyone,

I've recently started working with an old AS/400 machine and making my first programms in IBM Control Language.
However, right now I stumbled across a curious problem which I can't find a simple solution for.

The task itself is simple enough: I want a list of all JPGs in a few specific folders and their subfolders. This is easily enough achieved
with Qshells ls - R but I noticed that the listing occasionally just ends. I tracked the problem down to certain files that came from
our art departments Macs. Specifically, it seems Qshell can't handle the interpunct character ( · ) when it occurs in file names.

The code I'm currently using is
PGM
OVRDBF FILE(STDOUT) TOFILE(JQTEMP/JPGL) +
OVRSCOPE(*CALLLVL)
CLRPFM FILE(JPGP)
CD +
DIR('folder path in question')

QSH CMD('ls -R')
ENDPGM

Is there any way to handle these special characters or a better way to list folder contents at all? Sadly telling the art guys to stop using
the interpunct isn't an option. You know how it is.

Thanks in advance.

[jamief]

Re: Qshell and special characters

please attach 1 of the jpgs or if unable just a name.

[NihilVerum]

Re: Qshell and special characters

Here are two examples:
69-307  1.jpg
69-307  2.jpg
(Looks like Firefox doesn't even have the appropriate font to display the character for me, showing [F022] instead. Looks like it might not even really BE an interpunct!)

I've attached an edited version (workplace interals, no need to spread those around the net openly) of one of the files. For some reason, I am able to open it via Paint but not via IrfanView. It's zipped since the image itself is like 2500x3000 pixels.

[Java_RPG_Guy]

Re: Qshell and special characters

What are you going to do with the list? Perhaps you could try piping the output of the ls command to an IFS file.

export QIBM_CCSID=1252; ls -R '/yourPath' > '/home/myDir/myList-1252.TXT'

[NihilVerum]

Re: Qshell and special characters

Sorry for the late reply.

The JPGs from the list will be added to our inventory tool which right now contains all product information EXCEPT a picture. It's supposed to be easily updateable so our art department just has to upload new pictures to a folder on our server and we can do the rest.

Hence why these broken JPGs are giving me such a headache, if the art guys accidentally upload them in the future the whole list will be broken. If the update happens automatically we might not even notice.