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20.02.2008

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Convert a file from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8 encoding.

Usage:

convert.sh <filename>

Shell script

# cat convert.sh
#!/bin/bash

echo $1

/usr/bin/iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 -o ".$1" "$1"

/bin/mv -f ".$1" "$1"

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