enca:tldr:003d0

enca: Detect file(s) encoding according to the system's locale.

enca

$ enca ${filename1 filename2 ---}

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The command "enca ${filename1 filename2 ---}" appears to be a placeholder or template showing how to use the "enca" command with multiple filenames or file paths.

In general, the "enca" command is used to determine and set the character encoding of text files in Linux/Unix-based systems.

The placeholder "${filename1 filename2 ---}" suggests that you can replace it with one or more actual filenames or file paths (separated by spaces) to operate on.

For example, if you have two files named "file1.txt" and "file2.txt" and you want to determine their character encodings, you would use:

enca file1.txt file2.txt

This command would then analyze the contents of "file1.txt" and "file2.txt" and provide the character encoding information, such as UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.

Keep in mind that the specific behavior of the "enca" command and the available character encodings may vary depending on the system and the version of "enca" installed.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.

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