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Old 07-16-2010
Data File redirect with find -exec
I'm trying to do an in-place encoding conversion in bash on a new Cygwin install, and this is the one-liner I've tried:

Code:
$ find . -name '*.txt' -exec iconv -f UTF-8 -t CP932 {} > {} \;

While the brace expansion works for multiple parameters (for example, -exec mv {} {}.bk), the redirect seems to break that. Can someone explain why?

Going home now, next week I'll try a different approach. Maybe xargs would help.
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Old 07-16-2010
The code fails because the redirection happens too early, before your command is executed.

You could try something like this (untested):

Code:
find . -type f -exec sh -c '
  f="{}"
  iconv -f UTF-8 -t CP932 -- "$f" > "$f".tmp
  mv -v -- "$f".tmp "$f"
  ' \;

You should backup your files, before executing the above command!
 
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