[ILUG] [TOTD] recode

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#show available conversions
recode -l | less

#windows to unix with default charmap
recode windows-1252.. file_to_change.txt

#iso-8859-1 to utf-8
recode latin-1..utf-8 < file.txt > utf8.txt

#Base64 encode
recode ../b64 < file.txt > file.b64

#encode required chars for HTML
recode ..HTML file.html

#show table of characters
recode -lf windows-1252

#show what the character is in charmap
echo -n 0xA4 | recode l1/x1..dump

#show utf-8 encoding.
#Remove trailing /x to view on utf-8 terminal
echo -n 0x20AC | recode ucs-2/x2..utf-8/x

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