Unix to DOS text

Wynd · 04-15-2003, 08:36 PM

I have this shell script that converts a DOS text file to Unix format (different end-of-lines). How would I write it to do the reverse?

Code:

if [ -z "$1" ]
then
  echo "Usage: `basename $0` filename-to-convert"
  exit 1
fi

# Lines in a DOS text file end in a CR-LF.
CR='\015'  # Carriage return.

# Delete CR and write to new file.
tr -d $CR < $1

moses · 04-15-2003, 09:53 PM

"DOS format" has two end of line characters, carriage return and line feed. "ISO format" has just the line feed. You would need to add a carraige return to each line. Of course, you knew that. What you may not know is that this has been done. A quick google search on dos2unix or unix2dos will give you all sorts of ways to convert files, from Perl scripts, to sed one-liners to C programs.

cdw · 04-16-2003, 02:56 PM

Open *nix text files with Wordpad.

Tinkster · 04-16-2003, 03:05 PM

Slack comes with
fromdos
and
todos ;)

Cheers,
Tink

pilgrim22 · 04-17-2003, 10:38 AM

RedHat 7.2 (older distros in general?) had the utils "dos2unix" and "unix2dos". Don't know for sure if current ones do - check your distro packages. They are pretty self-explanatory, but have man pages for the overly curious!

Wynd · 04-18-2003, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tinkster
Slack comes with
fromdos
and
todos

Cheers,
Tink

Thanks - that's exactly what I was looking for