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Dos2Unix Text file format converters

Steve Lee edited this page Oct 1, 2015 · 6 revisions

The EOL (End Of Line) character in DOS is '\r\n'

The EOL (End Of Line) character in UNIX is '\n'

Editing UNIX files on Windows changes the EOL fron UNIX to DOS, which might make the unix build tools not working. Also this make file comparison difficult. Use the following steps to batch convert files from DOS to UNIX EOL:

Using PowerShell

Get-ChildItem -File -Recurse | % { $x = get-content -raw -path $_.fullname; $x -replace "`r`n","`n" | set-content -path $_.fullname }

or

  • Download dos2unix.exe program from http://sourceforge.net/projects/dos2unix/?source=typ_redirect
  • Uncompress the compressed file (lets say, dos2unix-7.3-win32.zip)
  • Put the bin directory of the uncompressed file (that has dos2unix.exe and other prorgrams) in system path
  • Open a command shell and go to the directory where you want to convert files and run

// to covert all file

for /R %G in (*.*) do dos2unix "%G"

// to covert all .h files

for /R %G in (*.h) do dos2unix "%G"

// to covert all .c file

for /R %G in (*.c) do dos2unix "%G"

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