Is it possible to convert files on the fly?

Question

linux

Good afternoon,
there are a large number of text files in koi-8r encoding. There is a linux server with ru_RU.UTF-8 locale. I would like to be able to access files in koi-8r, normally displayed in the server console with utf-8. Is it possible to recode "on the fly", without using command aliases and wrappers? That is, some beautiful solution (creating an image of files, mounting with options comes to mind, but it seems that this is not it). The option to recode all files to koi-8r was considered at once, I would like not to touch the files.

Answer 1

Yes
iconv -f utf8 /tmp/333.txt -t cp1251

Answer 2

If you want to use less, then you can do this:
If you want to open it in mcedit/mcview, then it can select encodings (alt+e).

Answer 3

Write the files to an archive on CD / DVD and recode as ShamblerR wrote