{"id":8798,"date":"2024-03-14T08:40:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T08:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-you-specify-the-encoding-format-in-a-shell-script\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T09:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T09:46:12","slug":"how-can-you-specify-the-encoding-format-in-a-shell-script","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-can-you-specify-the-encoding-format-in-a-shell-script\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Shell Script Encoding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In shell scripts, you can specify the encoding format by adding specific comments at the beginning of the file. Common encoding formats include UTF-8 and GBK. 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