Convert files from some encoding to another using the "iconv". edit

convert-encoding.sh

#!/bin/sh
# written by Arthur Furlan <[email protected]>

# check the script usage
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage: $0 PATH [FROM-ENCODING] [TO-ENCODING]"
    exit 1
elif [ ! -d $1 ]; then
    echo "Error: directory $1 not found."
    exit 2
fi

# define the encodings to be used, default: iso -> utf
F_ENC=${2:-'iso-8859-1'}
T_ENC=${3:-'utf-8'}

# convert the files
find $1 -type f | while read FNAME; do
    NEW_FNAME="/tmp/$(basename $FNAME)"
    iconv -f $F_ENC -t $T_ENC -o $NEW_FNAME $FNAME 
    mv $NEW_FNAME $FNAME
done