This little shell script converts HTML entities to UTF-8 characters. It takes the specified file and search and replaces HTML-Entity-Names like ü to ü.
sh h2u.sh myfile.txt
© 2012 Simon Aebersold - @saebersold, http://aebersold.me
Copyright (C) 2012 Simon Aebersold
htmlentity2unicode is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
htmlentity2unicode is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.