Re: unix2dos, dos2unix

From: Michele Andreoli (quisque@tin.it)
Date: Fri Nov 05 1999 - 00:54:16 CET


On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 12:40:29PM -0500, Larry Owens nicely wrote:
> At 06:06 PM 11/4/99 +0100, Hans-Juergen Geiss wrote:
> >Hello Robert.
> >
> >This will work:
> >dos2unix < source_file > destination_file
>
> And, from the redhat list, as a converter for dos files into native unix
> format.
>
> In the .[shell]rc file, add the following line:
>
> alias dos2unix="perl -p -i.bak -e 's/\015//g'"
>
> I didn't write this, but I use it.
>
> Larry
>

Larry, perl?! We have no Perl in muLinux :(

I think works also simply:

        cat dosfile | tr -d '\015' > unixfile

but can't remember is my "tr" is smart enough for that ..

Michele

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