Hello there,
On 11 Jan 2016, at 9:51 AM, J Galt jgaltusa@gmail.com wrote:
Do I execute this from the terminal?
I tried to but it returned the following error: -bash: -type: command not found
Yes, from Terminal. The "$" in my example symbolises a common Terminal prompt. So you type everything starting with "find" (skip the "$") and replace "sourcedir" and "/path/to/destdir/" with respective locations on your system.
On Jan 10, 2016, at 3:36 AM, Christian Rosentreter karibu@gmx.net wrote:
IMHO, such task is a job for some command line magic. :-)
Something like this could do: $ find sourcedir -type f -execdir sh -c 'iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 "{}" > /path/to/destdir/"{}"' ;
This command line uses iconv to convert all files from "sourcedir" and put the result of the conversion into "destdir".
regards, Christian