How to read a file in BASH in one encoding and overwrite it in another?

Question

bash

I recently received a bunch of large and, for me personally, important text files. The problem is that they are written in cp1251, and I desperately need utf-8. So the question is, how to first read the file in 1251, and then write it with the same name and path, but already in utf-8? It is desirable (very) bash, because I do not want to spend a lot of time poking into the GUI.

Answer 1

$ iconv -f cp1251 -t utf-8 in.txt
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