diff --git a/rename-filesh-with-special_characters.sh b/rename-filesh-with-special_characters.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+for file in ./*
+do
+  infile=`echo "${file:2}"|sed  \
+         -e 's|"\"|"\\"|g' \
+         -e 's| |\ |g' -e 's|!|\!|g' \
+         -e 's|@|\@|g' -e 's|*|\*|g' \
+         -e 's|&|\&|g' -e 's|]|\]|g' \
+         -e 's|}|\}|g' -e 's|"|\"|g' \
+         -e 's|,|\,|g' -e 's|?|\?|g' \
+         -e 's|=|\=|g'  `
+  outfileNOSPECIALS=`echo "${file:2}"|sed -e 's|[^A-Za-z0-9._-]|_|g'`
+  outfileNOoe=`echo $outfileNOSPECIALS| sed -e 's|ö|oe|g'`
+  outfileNOae=`echo $outfileNOoe| sed -e 's|ä|ae|g'`
+  outfileNOue=`echo $outfileNOae| sed -e 's|ü|ue|g'`
+  outfileNOOE=`echo $outfileNOue| sed -e 's|Ö|OE|g'`
+  outfileNOAE=`echo $outfileNOOE| sed -e 's|Ä|AE|g'`
+  outfileNOUE=`echo $outfileNOAE| sed -e 's|Ü|UE|g'`
+  outfileNOss=`echo $outfileNOUE| sed -e 's|ß|ss|g'`
+  outfile=${outfileNOss}
+  if [ "$infile" != "${outfile}" ]
+  then
+        echo "filename changed for " $infile " in " $outfile
+        mv "$infile" ${outfile}
+  fi
+done
+
+exit