Batch charset transcoding

Here is a Bash script transcoding all .nlp files from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, including those in subdirectories.

#!/bin/bash

for i in `find . -name "*.nlp" `
do
  echo $i
  if test ! -d $i ; then
    iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf8 $i >> $i-utf
    rm $i
    mv $i-utf $i
  fi
done

Of course it doesn’t perform ultra-clever, Novelang-friendly transcoding like changing «latin-capital-letter-o-with-double-acute» to Ő inside the sources, but I can’t beat its performance / price ratio.

Found on: http://niko.gramophon.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=6380