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January 13, 2017 08:50
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Shell script to convert encoding of files to utf-8.
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#!/bin/bash | |
if [ $# -lt 1 ] | |
then | |
echo "Usage: "$0" <file_name>" | |
echo "Convert files to utf-8" | |
exit | |
fi | |
for i in $* | |
do | |
encoding=$(chardet $i | cut -d ' ' -f 2) #determine the encoding of current file | |
echo "encoding "$i" ("$encoding") to utf-8" | |
iconv -f $encoding -t utf-8 $i -o $i.tmp #tmp file is created as a workaround for bus error | |
mv $i.tmp $i | |
done |
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