vi / vim

[chrno]

I've got a bunch of text files that need to be converted from Dos to Linux format i.e. the CRLR thingy ...

What I'm doing now is to open each of them in vim and manually convert them from there using this command
:set ff=unix
:wq

Is it possible to have vim run this automatically? Perhaps via a script? So I can batch the whole process?

Thanks!

[anaximander]

There are a few ways you can do this. A sed one-liner is convenient:

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sed -i 's/^M//' file-to-undos

(To get the ^M character into a bash command line, type Ctrl-V Ctrl-M).

Or you could look at the tofrodos package. Bit limited, though.

If you have to recurse down through directories converting all the text files in them:

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find directory-to-undos -type f | xargs sed -i 's/^M//'

For more complicated requirements, like where you have to convert only certain types of files, best to write a script. I could post a small Perl script I sometimes use for that sort of thing if you need it.

Cheers!

[lacek]

If you have installed the sysutils package, you can do this:

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fromdos *

This program has its counterpart, todos, which works the opposite way.

[ajdlinux]

So, the quick way if you have sysutils:

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find | grep ".txt" | xargs fromdos

will find all .txt files in the current directory and in all subdirectories, and run them through fromdos.

[chrno]

Many thanks everyone!

I did a

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apt-get install sysutils

and

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fromdos *

did the trick!