linux - How to add additional charsets to libiconv in Cygwin
2014-07
Nils-o-mat
My problem is, that I sometimes have to convert files in the ISO646-DE-encoding (for german authorities... Don't ask...). On each linux-system that I used
iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t ISO646-DE
worked fine. But in Cygwin I get the message:
iconv: conversion to ISO646-DE unsupported
iconv: try 'iconv -l' to get the list of supported encodings
I looked it up with "iconv -l" and - of course - it wasn't there.
Is there any way to add a charset or is this just complicated and not worth the effort? Thanks a bunch for your answers!
Nils
PS.: I just installed cygwin, so the libraries are steaming new.
IAdapter
I tried using Cygwin to emulate some cool Linux search feature, and when I do grep in files (12 text files - not big) it takes forever. I used
grep -rne word
I could find this word faster manually (even without Ctrl + F). Is there any reason this does not work? How to fix it?
P.S.: I use the Cygwin console.
grawity
You forgot to tell grep where to search, so it just sits there waiting for data to be input from 'stdin' – often a pipe, but in this case your keyboard. You can confirm by entering something like "this is a word", Enter, CtrlZ, Enter.
If you want to search the current directory, recursively, give . as the path.
grep -rne word .
(Note 2012-07: The latest version of GNU grep will search the current directory automatically if -r is given.)
In many cases, * will work too, but it is not recommended because 1) it is inefficient – expanding the wildcard to all file names takes some time and might even overflow the permitted command line length; 2) it does not match dotfiles (names starting with a dot) in most shells, although I'm not sure if this applies to expansion done by Cygwin itself.