Interacting with files from multiple directories via bash script

Question

I generated a script that iterates through several .csv files, converting relevant files to UTF-8:

#!/bin/bash

cd /home/user/prod/
charset=\"text/plain; charset         


        

Answer 1

You already accepted the answer of @Charles Duffy but (if I understood well) your question is about having files in different directories so if you need to work with multiple csv files on multiple directories you can use the following snippet:

# array containing the different directories to work with
pathDir=("/foo/bar/dir1" "/buzz/fizz/dir2")

for dir in "${pathDir[@]}" # For each directory
do
    for file in "$dir/"*.csv; do # For each csv file of the directory

        if [[ $(file -i "$file") == "$file: $charset" ]]; then
            iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 "$file" > "$file.new";
            mv -f "$file.new" "$file";
        fi

    done
done

The pathDir variable is an array which contains the path of different directories.

The first for loop iterate through this array to get all the paths to check.

The second for loop as in the previous answer iterate through the files of the current tested directory.

Answer 2

You stop the glob from being expanded when you quote it in

for file in "$path/*.csv"; do

Instead, quote the expansion but not the glob:

for file in "$path"/*.csv; do