gonaumov · December 29, 2020 13:34
diff --git a/converter.sh b/converter.sh
 # There was need to convert subtitles encoding in a directory. We - me and my wife use one Ubuntu desktop box
 # to watch movies. Linux users are used to meet these specific encoding problems if there is cirillyc. 
 # I wrote this one liner in order to convert all subtitles in a directory. 
 # xargs rocks - in that case xargs executes  recode windows-1251 for every file which has extenstion .srt 
 ls -A1 | egrep "\.srt'?$" | xargs -n 1 recode windows-1251
	# There was need to convert subtitles encoding in a directory. We - me and my wife use one Ubuntu desktop box
	# to watch movies. Linux users are used to meet these specific encoding problems if there is cirillyc.
	# I wrote this one liner in order to convert all subtitles in a directory.
	# xargs rocks - in that case xargs executes recode windows-1251 for every file which has extenstion .srt
	ls -A1 \| egrep "\.srt'?$" \| xargs -n 1 recode windows-1251