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How can I convert multiple files to UTF-8 encoding using *nix command line tools?
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Possible Duplicate: Batch-convert files for encoding or line ending I have a bunch of text files that I'd like to convert from any given charset to UTF-8 encoding. Are there any command line tools or Perl (or language of your choice) one liners I can use to do this en masse?
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iconv does convert between many character encodings. So adding a little bash magic and we can write This will run to every file ending in , sending the recoded file to a file with the same name but ending in instead of . It's not as if this would ac…
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