How to find encoding of a file in Unix via script(s)?

Question

I need to find the encoding of all files that are placed in a directory. Is there a way to find the encoding used? The `file` command is not able to do this. The encoding that is of interest to me is:ISO-8859-1. If the encoding is anything else, I want to move the file to another directory.

Answer 1

`file -i` might be of some use, or utilities such as `enca` or `encguess`.