#! /bin/sh

fromenc="$1"
shift

toenc="$1"
shift

tmpfile="`python -c 'import tempfile; print tempfile.mktemp()'`" &&

for file in "$@"; do
   iconv -f "$fromenc" -t "$toenc" "$file" >"$tmpfile" && cp "$tmpfile" "$file" && rm "$tmpfile"
done