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File encoding conversion
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iconv
# iso to utf-8
iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 INPUT_FILE > OUTPUT_FILE
# mac to utf-8 (OS X Office Excel exports CSV with this encoding)
iconv -f mac -t utf-8 INPUT_FILE > OUTPUT_FILE
# converting .DAT files in a directory from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8
find input/dir -iname "*.dat" -type f -exec bash -c 'iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 "{}" > output/dir/"{}"' \;
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