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nkf: Convert to UTF-8 encoding and overwrite the file.
$ nkf -w --overwrite ${filename-txt}
try on your machine
This command is for a program called nkf
, which stands for "Nihon Keisanki Henkan Fukugou" (Japanese File Conversion). The nkf
program is commonly used on Unix-like systems to convert the character encoding of text files.
Here is a breakdown of the command:
nkf
is the actual command or program being executed.-w
is an option fornkf
that specifies the output should be in UTF-8 encoding (Unicode).--overwrite
is another option fornkf
which indicates that the original input file should be overwritten with the converted version. If this option is not provided,nkf
will instead display the converted text on the console.${filename-txt}
represents the variable for the input file name. You would need to substitute${filename-txt}
with the actual name of the input file (e.g.,file.txt
) when running the command.
To summarize, this command is used to convert the character encoding of a text file to UTF-8 and overwrite the original file with the converted version.
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.