md5sum bash script with escaped characters

[kand]

Hello all,

I created a file holding all the md5 values of my files to find duplicates as follows:
find /mnt -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum >> ~/home.md5

I then tried to find duplicates and do ls -l on the result in such way:
cat ~/home.md5 | awk '{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{print $2}' | head -n 10 > ~/top10.md5

Now I attempted to do an ls -l on the files using the command:
for i in `cat ~/top10.md5`;do grep $i ~/home.md5 | while read checksum path; do echo "`echo $(printf '%q' \"${path}\")`" | xargs ls -l; done; done

This works well on most files, however it does not work when filenames have special letters in them that gets escaped such letters with accent etc. These become for examle \303.

Are there any ways I can use the escaped \303 strings with path names, or any better way I can do this?

[kevlar]

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It might be helpful to you. It seems like much software out there is incorrectly written in regards to non-ASCII and double-byte characters. Maybe with this info you can do some testing to isolate the culprit and replace it or ask the maintainers to fix it ....

[nmset]

would it work as expected if you modify

echo $(printf '%q' \"${path}\")

by

echo $(printf  \"${path}\")

Trying in a terminal seems to locate the problem there.