On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:07:43AM +0200, Jonathan Gift wrote: > 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.
You should try todos and fromdos in the sysutils package. > 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 ----- find ~/documents -exec todos {} \; man find. Learn all about find. Rob -- Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to school.