Hi PerlMonks, I have a great batch perl command line script: http://www.unix.com/members/302084659.html by k_manimuthu that does almost exactly what I need running in OSX terminal:

perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/^/\nFilename:$ARGV\n/' `find . -name '*.TXT'` However the files I'm picking up are UTF-16LE and the appended filename text being added to the front of the file is being outputted in UTF8. I have tried various things to print the filename in UTF-16LE, the closest that actually runs is: perl -i -pe 'BEGIN{binmode STDIN,":encoding(utf16le)"; undef $/;} s/^/\nFilename:$ARGV\n/' `find . -name '*.TXT'`

however this still seems to output utf8. Can anyone improve k_manimuthu's little gem of a script? Thanks

In reply to PERL Command line to batch add filename to start of file in UTF-16le by irenabyss

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