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ivan22

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From: Slovakia

Registered: 2006-06-21

Posts: 19

Convert CRLF to LF

I have some files from Windows here in my NEW ArchLinux box :-) I'd like ask you, if it's possible to convert these files in one step (whole dir) to use LF at the end of line. Thank you for answer.

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gnud

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Registered: 2005-11-27

Posts: 182

Re: Convert CRLF to LF

windows lineendings is CRLF (rn). Remove all CR's (leaving just the LF, the uniz endline) with

tr -d 'r' < "inputfile" > "outputfile"

So, in a loop for all files in directory:

for f in *.txt
do
    tr -d'r' < "$f" > "$f"
done

This is written on windows box at work, so try it out on one file before running the loop!

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: Convert CRLF to LF

I find this easier:

vim somefile
:set ff=unix
:wq

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lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: Convert CRLF to LF

extra/hd2u 1.0.0-1
    dos2unix is filter used to convert plain texts from DOS (CR/LF) format to
    UNIX format (CR) and vice versa.