# IN UNIX ENVIRONMENT: convert Unix newlines (LF) to DOS format sed "s/$/`echo -e \\\r`/" # command line under ksh sed 's/$'"/`echo \\\r`/" # command line under bash sed "s/$/`echo \\\r`/" # command line under zsh sed 's/$/\r/' # gsed 3.02.80
Hope this helps! On [DATE], "[NAME]" <[ADDRESS]> wrote: > Miles Fidelman wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 05/29/08 19:35, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> On Thursday 29 May 2008 05:26:43 pm L.V.Gandhi wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have made a text file in Linux using echo and cat commands. When I >>>>> open the file in note pad, I find files are not having line break, but >>>>> having a character in place of line break. Is there any way in echo >>>>> and cat commands usage to put windows line break? >>>>> >>>> Windows happens to end lines in a way that's gratuitously different >>>> from the rest of the world. Check out the tofrodos package. >>>> >>> >>> Since 90% of all computers are DOS/Windows, and got that method from >>> CP/M, which did it that way back in 1976/77, your "gratuitously >>> different" comment is absurdly wrong. >>> >> Actually, it dates back further than that, to ASR33 teletype machines, >> where you needed to issue separate carriage return and line feed >> characters to end a line - to i) physically return the carriage to the >> beginning of the line, and ii) feed a line of paper (turn the >> platten). (Anybody else out there old enough to remember when ASR33s >> where THE standard i/o device? :-) >> >> CR+LF is also required in most Internet protocols. >> This is one of the surprising areas, where the Microsoft products get >> things right, and the Unix world messes up. >> >> There are some good historical references at: >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline >> http://www.rfc-editor.org/EOLstory.txt >> http://www.w3.org/TR/newline >> >> Miles Fidelman >> >> > maybe someone allready answerd but ... > unix default line brake is ASCII 10 and windows is 13. > > You can use unix2dos or tofrodos to change it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]