iconv any encoding to UTF-8

Question

I am trying to point iconv to a directory and all files will be converted UTF-8 regardless of the current encoding

I am using this script but you have to specify wha

Answer 1

Compiling all them. Go to dir, create dir2utf8.sh:

#!/bin/bash
# converting all files in a dir to utf8

for f in *
do
  if test -f $f then
    echo -e "\nConverting $f"
    CHARSET="$(file -bi "$f"|awk -F "=" '{print $2}')"
    if [ "$CHARSET" != utf-8 ]; then
      iconv -f "$CHARSET" -t utf8 "$f" -o "$f"
    fi
  else
    echo -e "\nSkipping $f - it's a regular file";
  fi
done