Change File Encoding to utf-8 via vim in a script

Question

i just got knocked down after our server has been updated from Debian 4 to 5. We switched to UTF-8 environment and now we have problems getting the text printed correctly on

Answer 1

The accepted answer will keep the last file open in Vim. This problem can be easily resolved using the -c option of Vim,

vim +"argdo set bomb | set fileencoding=utf-8 | w" -c ":q" file1.txt file2.txt

If you need only process one file, the following will also work,

vim -c ':set bomb' -c ':set fileencoding=utf-8' -c ':wq' file1.txt