The following shell script can be used to remove accents from filenames in a directory and all subdirectories.
#!/bin/bash function dodir() { pushd "$1" >> /dev/null for x in *; do trans=`echo "$x" | tr "éáóüűúöóíÉÁÓÜŰÚÖÓÍ" "eaouuuooiEAOUUUOOI" | tr -c "[:alnum:]!@#$%^&_,' ()[].\n-" "#"` if [ "$trans" != "$x" ]; then echo "must rename $x to $trans" mv "$x" "$trans" if [ -d "$trans" ]; then dodir "$trans" fi else if [ -d "$x" ]; then dodir "$x" fi fi done popd >> /dev/null }; dodir "$1"