How to change encoding in many files?

Question

I try this:

find . -exec iconv -f iso8859-2 -t utf-8 {} \\;

but output goes to the screen, not to the same file. How to do it?

Answer 1

No one proposed a way to automatically detect encoding and recode.

Here is an example to recode to UTF-8 all HTM/HTML files from master branch of a GIT.

git ls-tree master -r --name-only | grep htm | xargs -n1 -I{} bash -c 'recode "$(file -b --mime-encoding {})..utf-8" {}'