Batch convert latin-1 files to utf-8 using iconv

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Published on 2010-12-28T08:24:34Z Indexed on 2010/12/28 8:53 UTC
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I'm having this one PHP project on my OSX which is in latin1 -encoding. Now I need to convert files to UTF8. I'm not much a shell coder and I tried something I found from internet:

mkdir new for a in ls -R *; do iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 <"$a" >new/"$a" ; done

But that does not create the directory structure and it gives me heck load of errors when run. Can anyone come up with neat solution?

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