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find all non UTF-8 encoded files
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find . -type f | xargs -I {} bash -c "iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16 {} &>/dev/null || echo {}" > utf8_fail
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anasram commented Apr 12, 2020

Using file command, I think you can find a way to do it in a simpler way, yet I don't know how.

Try this to understand what I mean:

file --mime-encoding *

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vtuz commented Jan 28, 2021

Thanks a lot!

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