A batch script converts (inplaces) all files in a directory to utf-8

convert-dir-to-utf8.sh

#!/bin/bash

apt-get -y install recode uchardet > /dev/null
find "$1" -type f | while read FFN        # 'dir' should be changed...
do
    encoding=$(uchardet "$FFN")
    echo "$FFN: $encoding"
    enc=`echo $encoding | sed 's#^x-mac-#mac#'`
    set +x
    recode $enc..UTF-8 "$FFN"
done