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recodeifneeded
#!/bin/bash
# Find the current encoding of the file
# place in $HOME/bin
# to mass use it
# find "$PWD" -type f -name "*" -exec recodeifneeded utf-8 {} \;
encoding=$(uchardet "$2")
if [[ "$1" != "${encoding}" ]] && [[ "${encoding}" != "UTF-8" ]] && [[ "${encoding}" != "unknown" ]]
then
# Encodings differ, we have to encode
echo "recoding from ${encoding} to $1 file : $2"
recode ${encoding}..$1 $2
fi
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