Re: [SLUG] Conversion question

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2007 - 16:06:07 EST

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On 1/17/07, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
>> On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, Paul M Foster wrote:
>>
>> > Chuck Hast wrote:
>> >
>> > For clarification:
>> >
>> > Line endings in Unix/Linux: LF (0x0a)
>> > Line endings in DOS/Windows: CR/LF (0x0d 0x0a)
>> > Line endings in Mac: CR (0x0d)
>> >
>> > Not quite sure why you're using a script. Just do:
>> >
>> > cat filename | dos2unix
>>
>> UUOC.
>>
>> dos2unix < filename
>
> I am guessing in this case it would be
> unix2dos <filename?

The file has Unix-style line endings (LF), and you want MSDOS-style endings
(CR+LF), so yes.

If you don't have those, you can change the endings appropriately with sed
and tr. 

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