How to change encoding in many files?

Question

I try this:

find . -exec iconv -f iso8859-2 -t utf-8 {} \\;

but output goes to the screen, not to the same file. How to do it?

Answer 1

I found this method worked well for me, especially where I had multiple file encodings and multiple file extensions.

Create a vim script called script.vim:

set bomb
set fileencoding=utf-8
wq

Then run the script on the file extensions you wish to target:

find . -type f \( -iname "*.html" -o -iname "*.htm" -o -iname "*.php" -o -iname "*.css" -o -iname "*.less" -o -iname "*.js" \) -exec vim -S script.vim {} \;