On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:07:43AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: > Hi, > > I have a great many text files I have to convert from Linux to DOS > format. I tries recode by hand once but it took hours. There has to be an > automatic way. > > I tried the following but it only acted on the top level of directories > and not the files and subdirectories below. Any help greatly > appreciated: > > ----- Snip ----- > > for file in ~/documents; do > recode latin1..ibmpc $file > done > > ----- Snip -----
Something like: find ~/documents -type f -exec recode latin1..ibmpc \{} \; No backups are made with this incantation! Others may have nicer scripts... -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>