[lug] How do I convert a DOS file to a UNIX file?

[Ferdinand Schmid]

How about dos2unix and unix2dos?  Those utilities do exactly what you want.  The 
conversion actually occurs during the ftp upload.  You could avoid the problem to begin 
with if you upload in binary mode (type binary in the ftp client).

Ferdinand

Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> Unless I'm mistaken, this is caused by those annoying carriage returns
> (that ^M crap).  I found a way to do it on the web somewhere and
> incorporated it into the script below. 
> 
> ---BEGIN SCRIPT---
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> echo "Removing M$ carriage returns from $1..."
> 
> tr < $1 > $2 -d '\r'
> 
> echo "M$ carriage return free file is $2."
> ---END SCRIPT---
> 
> This creates a copy of the file sans the carriage returns.  You can then
> just overwrite the original with the copy.
> 
> Dhruva
> 
> On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 01:52:52PM -0400, Scott Lockhart soliloquized thusly:
> 
>>Folks,
>>Due to strict DMZ requirements at a particular client,
>>I am not allowed to ftp UNIX files from one Linux server directly to
>>another.
>>Instead, I have to ftp to a general staging area, copy to a Windows 2000
>>server,
>>burn a CD-ROM, then mount the CD-ROM on my DMZ'd Linux Server.
>>Major pain in the a**!
>>
>>When I go to edit the file on my destination Linux server,
>>it is now recognized by "vi" as a DOS file!
>>I suspect this is being done by the CD-ROM burner as far as setting a
>>file format.
>>I have tried specifying an ISO 9660 format for the CD-ROM,
>>but all this does is mess up the file names to the old 8.3 format,
>>and the files themselves still get whacked into a DOS filetype.
>>
>>How can I convert a file designated as a DOS type, to a UNIX type?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>Scott Lockhart
> 
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