Tag: file

Change ownership of folder and subfolders

How to change the owner/group of a file or directory recursively.

sudo chown -R newusername foldername

To change the group:

sudo chgrp -R newgroupname foldername

October 23, 2013
Read a text file with bash line by line

Read a text file in bash line by line with while. It will read till the end of line. You can modify the end of line setting a new value to EOF variable.

while read line; do echo "${line}"; done < <(cat file.lst)

October 23, 2013
Change file encoding in linux with iconv

Loop recursively through all files in a directory matching a pattern and then change their encoding with iconv.

#!/bin/bash
find /Path/To/Files -name \*.xxx -type f | \ (while read file; do iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF8 "$file" > "${file%.xxx}-utf8.xxx"; done);

October 23, 2013