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rodrigodev/iconv-convert-encoding.sh

Created December 8, 2020 21:26
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Convert encoding batch for Mac OS
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iconv-convert-encoding.sh
#!/bin/bash
#enter input encoding here
FROM_ENCODING="ISO_8859-1"
#output encoding(UTF-8)
TO_ENCODING="UTF-8"
#convert
CONVERT="iconv -f $FROM_ENCODING -t $TO_ENCODING"
#loop to convert multiple files
for file in ./*.txt; do
encoding=$(file -I "$file" | awk '{print $3}')
if [ "$encoding" == "charset=iso-8859-1" ]; then
$CONVERT "$file" >"$file.new" &&
mv -f "$file.new" "$file"
fi
done
exit 0
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