First off I have to say, it is because of this forum and countless Google searches I have this script working at all. So thank you for that.

I have created a web based open source project and I am trying to automate some of the tasks when I am releasing a new version. I do most of my development on my Windows box and have a test site running on a local Linux test server.

I have created a script and if I can get a few optimization pointers on it I would appreciate it very much.

This script does exactly what I want it to and I want to know, is there a better way?

#!/bin/bash

CONVERT_FROM=ISO-8859-1
CONVERT_TO=UTF-8

# move into our working directory
cd /var/www/localhost/htdocs/dist/

# remove execute bit
find . -type f -name "*.*" -exec chmod 664 {} \;
echo "Files have been modified to remove the execute bit"

# if line endings in our file are windows CR change to unix
find . -type f -name "*.*" -exec dos2unix -q -o {} \;
echo "Dos 2 Unix new line conversion has completed"

# delete any previous utf-8 files so we can write new ones
find . -type f \( -iname "*utf8*" \) -exec rm -f {} \;
echo "Old UTF-8 files have been deleted"

# get all files in our current working directory and make sure they are UTF-8 charset
find . -type f \( ! -iname "*.ttf" ! -iname "*.gif" ! -iname "*.jpg" ! -iname "*.jpeg" ! -iname "*.png" \) -exec iconv -f $CONVERT_FROM -t $CONVERT_TO -s -o {}.utf8 {} \;
echo "New UTF-8 files have been created"

# delete unconverted files so we can move the new files back later
find . -type f \( ! -iname "*.utf8" ! -iname "*.ttf" ! -iname "*.gif" ! -iname "*.jpg" ! -iname "*.jpeg" ! -iname "*.png" \) -exec rm {} \;
echo "Removal of original unconverted files is complete"

# rename all files converted to utf-8 with utf8 extension
mmv -m ";*.utf8" "#1#2"
# deal with .htaccess
mmv -m ";.*.utf8" "#1.#2"
echo "Dist Prep has completed"

did you mean 'mv' instead of 'mmv'

don't have to use that many find commands. you can use it just one time, then pipe whatever files it find to while read loop

find . -type f -name "*.*" | while read FILE
do
 chmod 664 $FILE
 dos2unix $FILE $FILE
 case $FILE in
    *utf8* )) rm -f $FILE    
 esac
 #continue

done

ghostdog74, thanks for that it worked perfectly after I removed the extra ). That is much more elegant and succinct then what I had.

find . -type f -name "*.*" | while read FILE
do
  chmod 664 $FILE
  dos2unix $FILE $FILE
  case $FILE in
  *utf8* ) rm -f $FILE    
 esac
#continue

done

mmv?

I have not heard about, is it for multiple-mv's ? Which distribution is it?

I am running it on Gentoo and just emerged it

emerge mmv

While mmv is typically not included as part of base build for Linux distros, it should be included on the installation media. If not, then you will have to use your favorite package manager (yum, yast, apt, smart, etc.) to install it from the web.