automatization with powershell Start-Process

[Erhy]

Hallo!

 My task is, to convert many files encoding in latin1 to UTF-8

I know the sequence which works:

open a file

set set fileencoding=utf-8

set bomb

wrtite to another file

but there are problems with the argument list

this fails:

Start-Process -FilePath 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Vim/vim82/vim.exe' -wait -ArgumentList ('"S:\testConcToUTF2\b Ansi copied.txt"', '-c set fileencoding=utf-8')

please give me an advice

Erhy

[skeept]

I think the only think you need to change is the last part:

'-c set fileenconding=utf-8' should be changed to

'-c', '"set fileencoding=utf-8"'

[Erhy]

Thank you it worked

Here an example of the full command to convert encoding to UTF-8 with BOM

Start-Process -FilePath 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Vim/vim82/vim.exe' -wait -ArgumentList ('"S:\testConcToUTF2\b Ansi copied.txt"', '-c', '"set fileencoding=utf-8"', '-c', '"set bomb"', '-c', '"w S:/testConcToUTF2/b Ansi copied now UTF.txt"', '-c', '"q!"' )

[Erhy]

and now a better Start-Process which don't flicker:

    $argRead = '"e ' + $filename + '"'
    $argwrite = '"w! ' + $tmpFilepath + '"'
    Start-Process -FilePath $vimPath -wait -WindowStyle Hidden -ArgumentList ( `
        '-c', '"set noswapfile"', '-c', $argRead, `

        '-c', '"set fileencoding=utf-8"', '-c', '"set bomb"',

`
        '-c', $argwrite, '-c', '"q!"' )