Powershell Write File To UTF-8

Just a simple program that re-writes files in a folder to UTF-8. A production server I work on had an old version of Powershell running on it and a file needed to be in UTF-8 for it to be read by a Golang-script, so this was created.

This can be run from the terminal by calling the script and passing the logPath and pathToFiles parameters to the Script.

Doesn't write a BOM (Byte Order Mark) on the file, due to the Golang Script reading the file.

This can also be found on my github

## Running this twice on a already utf-8 file causes it to scramble the text

## MAKE SURE THAT THE FILE YOU ARE USING THIS ON ISN'T UTF-8 ALREADY

## Current powershell version doesn't support checking file-encoding quickly without a Byte Order Mark

param

(

$logPath,

$pathToFiles

)

$logDate = Get-Date -Format "yyyy_MM_dd_hh_mm"

$finalLogPath = $logPath + $logDate + "_utf_write_log.txt"

$Utf8NoBomEncoding = New-Object System.Text.UTF8Encoding $False

function somethingWentWrong ($errormessage){

$_ | Out-File $finalLogPath -Append

$sendmailto = ""

$sendmailfrom = ""

$smtp = ""

$subject = "Rewrite failure"

$mailMessage ="An error occurred during file rewrite. Check logs `n" + $finalLogPath + "`n" + $errormessage + "`n"

Send-MailMessage -From $sendmailfrom -To $sendmailto -SmtpServer $smtp -Subject $subject -Body $mailMessage

Exit 1

}

try{

$filesToTransfer | ForEach-Object{

[System.IO.File]::WriteAllLines((Resolve-Path $pathTofiles*$_*),(Get-Content $pathTofiles*$_*), $Utf8NoBomEncoding)

Write-Output "File $_ rewritten as utf-8 successfully" >> $finalLogPath

}

}catch{

$errormessage = $_

Write-Output $errormessage >> $finalLogPath

somethingWentWrong($errormessage);

}