Ask Bjoern Hansen writes ..
>On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Billy Joedono wrote:
>
>[...]
>> Convert to regular Unix format and problem solved! More
>question: how can I
>> force vi to show these, or better yet, how can I get
>dos2unix or unix2dos
>> in Linux?
>
>perl -i -pe 's/\r\n/\n/' file_to_be_converted_to_unix_lines.txt
>perl -i -pe 's/\n/\r\n/' file_to_be_converted_to_dos_lines.txt
that's platform dependant code - it will not work on systems like Win32 that
do line-ending conversion on text files
specifically in the substitution from "\n" to "\r\n" when Win32 writes that
out to a file it will replace the "\n" with "\r\n" so you'll get "\r\r\n" at
the end of each line
believe it or not - you need to do some bindmoding of filehandles to ensure
no line-ending conversion is done .. it's not a one-liner
--
jason king
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