Bash script to change encoding recursively. Use: sh to_utf8.sh path/dir

to_utf8.sh

#!/bin/bash
# vim: set sw=2 sts=2 tw=80 :
shopt -s globstar
for file in $1/**
do
  if test -f $file
  then
    CHARSET="$(file -bi "$file"|awk -F "=" '{print $2}')"
    if [ "$CHARSET" != binary ]; then
      if [ "$CHARSET" != utf-8 ]; then
        echo -e "\nConverting $file"
        mv $file $file.old
        iconv -f $CHARSET -t utf-8 "$file.old" -o "$file" && rm $file.old
      fi
    fi
  fi
done