On Thursday 14 February 2002 05:17, Franki wrote: > Hi all, > > I have many perl scripts in a directory that all contain windows control > characters.. > > I would like to make a shell script or something that will go through > all the files in a directory, (and any sub directores) > grep every file for ^M characters and swap them for their unix > equivalent.... > > has anyone ever done this?
Someone apparently did. Often enough to write a standard utility called dos2unix ... <g> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=dos2unix there is also a unix2dos package to go with it -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC ...hey, at least a wild goose chase gives you some exercise-Neal Stephenson
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