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iconv
— codeset
conversion utility
iconv |
[-cs ] -f
from_name -t
to_name [file ...] |
iconv |
-f from_name
[-cs ] [-t
to_name] [file ...] |
iconv |
-t to_name
[-cs ] [-f
from_name] [file ...] |
iconv |
-l |
The iconv
utility converts the codeset of
file (or from standard input if no file is specified)
from codeset from_name to codeset
to_name and outputs the converted text on standard
output.
The following options are available:
-c
iconv
outputs an “invalid character”
specified by the to_name codeset when it encounts a
character which is valid in the from_name codeset
but does not have a corresponding character in the
to_name codeset.-f
-l
-s
iconv
outputs the number of
“invalid characters” to standard error if they exist. This
option prevents this behaviour.-t
The iconv
utility exits 0 on
success, and >0 if an error occurs.
Convert file.txt from IBM273 to UTF-8 and save the result to converted.txt:
iconv -f IBM273 -t UTF-8 file.txt
> converted.txt
iconv
conform to IEEE Std
1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”).
iconv
first appeared in
NetBSD 2.0, and made its appearance in
FreeBSD 9.0.
October 22, 2009 | macOS 14.6 |