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Commands tagged encoding

Terminal - Commands tagged encoding - 7 results

find . -iname *.java -type f -exec bash -c "iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 {} > {}.tmp " \; -exec mv {}.tmp {} \;

2012-01-12 20:00:26

User: miguelbaldi

Functions: bash find mv

Tags: windows unix encoding conversion

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Convert encoding from cp1252 (MS Windows) to UTF-8 on source code files

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wget -q -O- --header\="Accept-Encoding: gzip" <url> | gunzip > out.html

2010-11-27 22:14:42

User: ashish_0x90

Functions: gunzip wget

Tags: wget encoding gunzip gzip

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Get gzip compressed web page using wget.

Caution: The command will fail in case website doesn't return gzip encoded content, though most of thw websites have gzip support now a days.

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mencoder input.avi -of mpeg -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video \ -oac copy other_options -o output.mpg

2010-01-18 13:12:03

User: slishan

Tags: mencoder encoding .avi .mpg

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Encoding from AVI to MPEG format

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-mpeg.html

MEncoder can create MPEG (MPEG-PS) format output files. Usually, when you are using MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video, it is because you are encoding for a constrained format such as SVCD, VCD, or DVD.

To change MEncoder's output file format, use the -of mpeg option.

Creating an MPEG-1 file suitable to be played on systems with minimal multimedia support, such as default Windows installs:

mencoder input.avi -of mpeg -mpegopts format=mpeg1:tsaf:muxrate=2000 \

-o output.mpg -oac lavc -lavcopts acodec=mp2:abitrate=224 -ovc lavc \

-lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video:vbitrate=1152:keyint=15:mbd=2:aspect=4/3

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iconv -f utf8 -t utf16 /path/to/file

2009-12-01 21:02:58

User: imsaar

Functions: iconv

Tags: Linux unix encoding i18n

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Convert encoding of given files from one encoding to another

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file -i <textfile>

2009-09-08 01:33:19

User: juvenn

Functions: file

Tags: Linux bsd encoding charset

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Detect encoding of a text file

This command gives you the charset of a text file, which would be handy if you have no idea of the encoding.

for i in *;do mv "$i" "$(echo $i | sed s/PROBLEM/FIX/g)";done

2009-06-28 01:50:25

User: AlecSchueler

Functions: mv

Tags: bash sed mv rename encoding

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Uniformly correct filenames in a directory

Useful if non-ascii characters in filenames have been improperly encoded. Replace "PROBLEM" with the incorrect characters (e.g. 'é'), and "FIX" with the correct ones (e.g. '?').

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echo "Hello world" | base64

2009-04-27 15:00:08

User: P17

Functions: echo

Tags: encoding

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Encoding with base64

Also works with files:

cat file

Hello world

base64 file

SGVsbG8gd29ybGQK

To decrypt use the -d option:

echo SGVsbG8gd29ybGQK | base64 -d

Hello world