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

[j davis]

you can also download utilites like Dos2Unix

http://userpage.chemie.fu-berlin.de/~winkelma/Misc/Perl/Scripts/Dos-Unix/

jd


>From: "Dhruva B. Reddy" <bdhruva at gmx.net>
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>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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thanks,
jd

jd at taproot.bz
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