[Bash] Convert Files in Directory From Big5 to UTF-8

Question:

A lot of HTML files under dhpstory directory. The encoding of the files is Big5. Converted them to UTF-8 encoding via iconv command.

Answer:

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#!/bin/sh
# Convert all files in directory from Big5 to UTF-8

# list all files recursively
for file in $(find dhpstory/ -type f)
do
  output=${file}-utf8.html
  echo "\033[92mConverting ${file} (BIG5) to ${output} (UTF8) ...\033[0m"
  iconv -f BIG5 -t UTF8 ${file} > ${output}
done

References:

[1]	[Bash] List All Files in Directory Recursively and Rename