iconv:tldr:6fd7b

The command iconv -f ${from_encoding} ${input_file} > ${output_file} is used to convert the encoding of a text file from one format to another.

Here is a breakdown of the command:

• iconv: This is the name of the command-line tool used for character encoding conversion.
• -f ${from_encoding}: This specifies the encoding of the input file. ${from_encoding} is a placeholder that should be replaced with the actual encoding name (e.g., UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.).
• ${input_file}: This is the name or path of the input file that needs to be converted. ${input_file} is another placeholder that should be replaced with the actual file name or path.
• > ${output_file}: This redirects the output of the iconv command to a specified file instead of displaying it on the terminal. ${output_file} is a placeholder that should be replaced with the actual file name or path where you want the converted output to be saved.

For example, if you wanted to convert a file named input.txt from UTF-8 encoding to ISO-8859-1 encoding and save the output to a file named output.txt, the command would look like this:

iconv -f UTF-8 input.txt > output.txt

After running this command, the input.txt file will be converted from UTF-8 encoding to ISO-8859-1 encoding, and the converted content will be saved to the output.txt file.