Re: Using a bash script to alter multiple files

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[leifbk]

While working on a similar problem, I stumbled upon this thread: [webmasterworld.com ]. As I'm not allowed to reply to that one as it's too old, I'll start a new one more or less for the record.

I did a little hack that does the requested job, using the '$@' bash variable. It will accept wildcard arguments on the command line, so you may run it on multiple files like

"iso2utf8 *.php"

.

#! /bin/bash
# iso2utf8 - convert all specified files to utf-8
for FILE in `ls $@`
do
 iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 $FILE > tempfile.tmp
 mv -f tempfile.tmp $FILE
 ls -l $FILE
done

I hope that this may be of help to someone.

regards, Leif

[edited by: encyclo at 6:11 pm (utc) on June 6, 2007]
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