====== Change Encoding with iconv ======

===== Convert Single File =====

  iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 -o OUTPUT.txt INPUT.txt

Converts ''INPUT.txt'' from ''iso-8859-1'' to ''utf-8'' and writes it to ''OUTPUT.txt''.

===== Convert All Files in a Directory =====

<code bash>
for f in $(find . -type f)
do
  iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 -o ${f}_$$_TEMP ${f} \
  && mv ${f}_$$_TEMP ${f}
done
</code>

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