Question

I am running Gnu iconv from a .bat file in Windows Vista (Sorry about that!)

"C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\iconv.exe" -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 "%1" > "%1"

If I call

> batch.bat "S:\gutschein_info.php"

It executes as

> "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\iconv.exe" -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 
  "S:\gutschein_info.php"  1> "S:\gutschein_info.php"

Then gutschein_info.php is empty. Where does the ” 1>” come from? Why is it not working?

Btw: Finally I would like to convert a whole folder:

FOR %%i IN (%1*) DO "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\iconv.exe" -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 %%i > %%i

Answer 1

iconv does not work if input file is the same as the output file. So iconv ... %1 > %1 ist empty but iconv ... %1 > utf8/%1 works. My script:

cd "S:\gutscheine"
S:
mkdir utf8
FOR %%i IN (*) DO "C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin\iconv.exe" -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 %%i > utf8/%%i
C: