Guide to Unix/Commands/Convmv

convmv converts file names from one character coding to another. Seems not covered by POSIX.

More encoding commands:

• recode – convert file contents from one encoding to another
• utrac – convert file contents from one encoding to another
• cstocs – convert file contents from one encoding to another
• convmv – convert a filename from one encoding to another
• enca – analyzes encodings for given text files

Links:

• upstream convmv man page, j3e.de
• convmv man page, freebsd.org
• Wikipedia:Character encoding