encoding fixer

fixEncoding.sh

#!/bin/bash
#small encoding fixer by benedikt wolters<[email protected]>

#either write iconv output conversion to dev null or pipe it to conversion
#Debug mode?
#set -x
echo Will fix encoding for text files... this may take a while depending on mess level
BAD_FILES=$(find . \
    -type f  \
    -print| \
        xargs file|grep text|cut -d: -f1 |xargs -I {} bash -c "iconv -f utf-8 -t utf-16 {} &>/dev/null || echo {}"|\
        xargs -I {} bash -c "file -bi {} |grep iso-8859-1 &>/dev/null && echo {}"
        #xargs -I {} bash -c "iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 -c {} > {}"
)
for file in $BAD_FILES
    do
        echo "Will fix... $file"
        iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 -o "$file.new" "$file" && mv -f "$file.new" "$file"
    done