Text conversion command

for file in `ls ../Inuit-Yupik/ess/monolingual_corpus/sivuqam_nangaghnegha/sivuqam_volume2/volume2.gold.ess/`
do 
    iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8//TRANSLIT "../Inuit-Yupik/ess/monolingual_corpus/sivuqam_nangaghnegha/sivuqam_volume2/volume2.gold.ess/$file" | sponge "../Inuit-Yupik/ess/monolingual_corpus/sivuqam_nangaghnegha/sivuqam_volume2/volume2.gold.ess/$file"
done