Littel copy past program in shell

Lord Firestorm · 12-08-2009, 07:57 AM

Hi there,
i have an issue with some text files. Actually they are fortran code and they don't work properly because they were programmed under windows and i am on linux now. The thing is that i can get them to work by opening each file (*.f) select all copy all open new text file paste all and save it under the same name (*.f). If it would be one file no problem but i have roughly 160. I thought about a little shell program that would do the job for me. Any ideas?

theNbomr · 12-08-2009, 11:37 AM

This is quite likely a case of DOS CR-LF end of lines, vs Linux LF end of lines. There is probably a utility installed on your distro to do this job. My OpenSuse distro has dos2unix. Should take no more than a single commandline to complete the job.
--- rod.

David the H. · 12-08-2009, 01:11 PM

"flip" is another tool that does the same thing. Or you can even use sed to do it (look under TEXT CONVERSION, 1/2 a page down).