[ILUG] repair permissions

[P at draigBrady.com]

Kenn Humborg wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 07:16:12PM +0100, Brian Foster wrote:
> 
>> OTOH, a specialist utility, such as the vis(1) Pike et.al.
>> mentioned, could/should be so extended.  (now that I think
>> about it, I wonder if a charmap(5) file for use with (GNU)
>> iconv(1)/iconv(3) is possible to implement a "UCS `vis'"?)
> 
> 
> Blergh.  Last time I ran iconv on a large file (a Wikipedia
> SQL dump), it seemed like it wanted to slurp the whole file
> into RAM, then transform it and output it.  Not nice when the
> file is multiple-100MB.
> 
> Someone needs to rewrite iconv(1) as a more stream-oriented 
> filter before doing what you suggest.
> 
> Maybe I should go log a bug against this...
absolutely.

Give recode a go:

$ echo "t€st" | recode ..ascii
tEURst
$ echo "t€st" | recode ..HTML
t€st
$ echo "t€st" | recode ../QP
t=E2=82=ACst

More recode recipies here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html

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