Exam LX0-104 topic 7 question 20 discussion

The purpose of the iconv command is to convert files from one character encoding to another. It can convert text files from one encoding to another, allowing you to view or use text that was written in one character set on a computer or operating system that uses a different character set. The iconv command is commonly used to convert text files between character sets, such as converting text encoded in ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8. The basic syntax for the command is: iconv -f [input encoding] -t [output encoding] [input file] > [output file] where -f stands for "from" and -t stands for "to". The input file is specified as the last argument and the output file can be specified by redirecting the output to a file with the > operator.