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user3788760
user3788760

Reputation: 309

Notepad++ Open file, change encoding and save from command line

I search a way to do an automated task with Notepad++ from command line:

  1. Open file
  2. Change encoding to UTF-8
  3. Save file

Is there any way to do it with some plugin or even with other program ?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 11855

Answers (2)

Mariano Desanze
Mariano Desanze

Reputation: 8163

Windows Powershell script to change all the files in the current folder (and in all subfolders):

foreach ($file in @(Get-ChildItem *.* -File -Recurse)) {
    $content = get-content $file
    out-file -filepath $file -inputobject $content -encoding utf8
}

If you want to change only specific files just change the *.* (in the first line).

Note: I tried the pipe (|) approach in Broco's answer and was not working (I got empty output files as Josh commented). I think is because we probably cannot read and write directly from and to the same file (while in my approach I put the content into a memory variable).

Upvotes: 0

Broco
Broco

Reputation: 217

Why do you want to use Notepad++ for that task? Which OS are you using? Notepad++ got a Plugin-manager where you can install the Python Script plugin.

http://pw999.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/mass-convert-a-project-to-utf-8-using-notepad/

But if you want to convert files to UTF8 you can do that way easier with PowerShell on Windows or command line on Linux.

For Windows Power-Shell:

$yourfile = "C:\path\to\your\file.txt"
get-content -path $yourfile | out-file $yourfile -encoding utf8

For Linux use (e.g.) iconv:

iconv -f ISO-8859-15 -t UTF-8 source.txt > new-file.txt

Upvotes: 3

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