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How to batch convert legacy files to UTF8?

rated 0 times [ 5] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2200 / 1 Year ago, sat, march 25, 2023, 12:19:19

I think the ideal solution for me is a Nautilus Script that performs encoding conversion on selected files.

The following script reads the encoding of a selected file and performs utf8 conversion if it's not utf8, but I couldn't figure out how to make it work on multiple files:

CHARSET="$(file -bi "$1"|awk -F "=" '{print $2}')"

if [ "$CHARSET" != utf-8 ]; then

iconv -f "$CHARSET" -t utf8 "$1" -c -o "$1.utf8"

fi

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answered 1 Year ago ligenvirt · Accepted Answer

Let's say your script is named convert-to-utf-8.sh. Here's how you would make it work across multiple files:

for filename in file1 file2 file3 ; do ./convert-to-utf-8.sh "$filename" ; done

You could incorporate that for-loop in the script itself, like this:

for filename in "$@"; do

    CHARSET="$(file -bi "$filename"|awk -F "=" '{print $2}')"

    if [ "$CHARSET" != utf-8 ]; then

        iconv -f "$CHARSET" -t utf8 "$filename" -c -o "$filename.utf8"

    fi

done

You could then run the script with multiple filenames like this:

./convert-to-utf-8.sh file1 file2 file3