[Ilugc] One Day One Command (DOS2UNIX)

[Bharathi Subramanian]

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One Day One Command (By Vishravars Ramasubramanian)
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dos2unix -- DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter.

Summary:

Each OS will indicate the line end using Line Feed (LF,10) or Carriage
Return (CR,13). So when tranfering a file from DOS to Linux, you have
to convert the Line end from DOS format to Linux format.

dos2unix will convert the DOS/MAC Text file to Unix format.

Unix uses LF as line end, Windows/DOS uses CR/LF and MacOS uses CR.

Examples:

$ dos2unix dos.txt -- Convert and replace dos.txt.

$ dos2unix -n dos.txt gnu.txt -- Convert dos.txt and write into
                                 gnu.txt

$ dos2unix -k dos.txt -- Convert and replace a.txt while keeping 
                         original date stamp.

Read: man dos2unix

Bye :)
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Bharathi S
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