Shell script to convert encoding of files to utf-8.

convert-encoding.sh

#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
  echo "Usage: "$0" <file_name>"
  echo "Convert files to utf-8"
  exit
fi

for i in $*
do
  encoding=$(chardet $i | cut -d ' ' -f 2) #determine the encoding of current file
  echo "encoding "$i" ("$encoding") to utf-8"
  iconv -f $encoding -t utf-8 $i -o $i.tmp #tmp file is created as a workaround for bus error
  mv $i.tmp $i
done