Most any modern Linux distribution has a pair of commands to do this to a
file. On my (Debian) system, they are called "todos" and "fromdos", though I
believe the names vary from distribution to distribution. They can be used
either on files (including wildcard specifications) or, via pipes, on STDIN
and STDOUT (not sure how you want to use STDERR in this context).
In the past (before these tools were standard), I wrote a similar pair of
programs in perl. Easy; about 20 lines of code. Were I to do it today, I'd
probably just write a perl or shell-script wrapper for these apps. You could
probably also write a wrapper for sed to do the same thing. I don't know
which choice would be fastest, and I don't know if any would be fast enough
for your purposes ... I need to do this rarely enough that the speed of
"fromdos" and "todos" is adequate for me.
At 01:08 PM 10/16/99 -0700, Dan Browning wrote:
>What utils are available (preferable ones that use STDIN, STDOUT, and
>STDERR) to convert unix text files to DOS (win,etc.) text files and back?
>Written in C, and can process gigabytes of small text files fast?
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