On Sun, 20 May 2012 21:10:51 +0200, Michael Ross wrote: > Maybe you can use /usr/ports/converters/dosunix. > > Usage: > dosunix INPUTFILE OUTPUTFILE > > DosUnix converts files from DOS text format to Unix text format > by replacing each carriage return & newline pair with a single > newline character. > > does not do backups, though.
If more complex conversions (including character sets) is needed (which often is the case for non-US "Windows" files), the "recode" port is very useful: % recode cp437..iso8859-1 <file> It also doesn't do backups, which would be required to do using a surrounding script. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"