apt-get install dos2unix returning the error
"Couldn't find package dos2unix"
means, presumably, that I have to find a source.
Can anyone suggest one, please?
William Bennett.
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When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line
ends converted
When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned Tyrannosaus rex.
Can anyone tell me what the latest command is, please? While you're doing
it I'll look for some new friends.
William Bennett.
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Sent: Sun, 26 December, 2010 4:08:41 PM
Subject: [SLUG] dos2unix
apt-get install dos2unix returning the error
"Couldn't find package dos2unix"
means, presumably, that I ha
For those who asked, I'm running Lucid Lynx on a Toshiba Laptop.
Regards,
William Bennett.
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It seems to have disappeared. I now use (on Ubuntu) the package
'tofrodos'. The two programs are
fromdos [ options ] [file...]
todos [ options ] [file...]
Chris
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On 26/12/10 21:43, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
For those who asked, I'm running Lucid Lynx on a Toshiba Laptop.
Regards,
William Bennett.
I'm using Maverick on my desktop machine where dos2unix is in universe.
I looked for it on one of my servers (which runs Lucid) and it was not
there.
Steven Tucker wrote:
Homepage: http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/index.shtml
So perhaps tofrodos is the ticket for you.
This tweaked my interest since I often type in a well remembered
incantation in the shell to this purpose, e.g.
$ cat filename.msdos.txt | tr \\r \\n > filename.txt
as
On Tuesday 28 December 2010 09:00:01 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> t seems to have disappeared. I now use (on Ubuntu) the package
> 'tofrodos'. The two programs are
> fromdos [ options ] [file...]
> todos [ options ] [file...]
vim does easily and without fuss dos->unix->mac
On Sun, 2010-12-26 at 17:08 +1100, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
> apt-get install dos2unix returning the error
>
> "Couldn't find package dos2unix"
>
> means, presumably, that I have to find a source.
>
> Can anyone suggest one, please?
>
> William Bennett.
I think tofrodos is what you
Hi William,
another command is: tofrodos
However, the best command to use is the one which does the job for you:-)
Lubos
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:47 PM, William Bennett wrote:
> When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line
> ends converted
>
> When I mentioned t
On 27/08/14 20:57, Lubos Rendek wrote:
Hi William,
another command is: tofrodos
However, the best command to use is the one which does the job for you:-)
Lubos
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:47 PM, William Bennett wrote:
When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:47:21PM +1000, William Bennett wrote:
> When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line
> ends converted
>
> When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned Tyrannosaus rex.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the latest command is, please
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 08:47:21PM +1000, William Bennett wrote:
> When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line
> ends converted
>
> When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned Tyrannosaus rex.
He got that from your scent? Just kidding.
> Can anyone
"tr -d '\r' < infile > outfile"
On 27 August 2014 20:47, William Bennett wrote:
> When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line
> ends converted
>
> When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned Tyrannosaus rex.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the latest
On 28 Aug 2014, at 10:00 am, slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
>> When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos file line
>> ends converted
>>
>> When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned Tyrannosaus rex.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what the latest command is, pl
On 27/08/14 20:47, William Bennett wrote:
> When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos
> file line ends converted
>
> When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned
> Tyrannosaus rex.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the latest command is, please?
I still use dos2un
Many thanks to those who replied to my enquiry on dos2unix.
Reason for the enquiry: I have a .txt file that I wish to edit using Elvis.
However, line endings when one saves a dos file to txt are inconsistent .I
was told dos2unix would fix this. I'm using the latest Ubuntu. Even so,
dos2unix will
> Final question: dos2unix will fix up the line endings. Is there anything
> else it fixes?
yes, apparently: http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/dos-util/uuencode/dos2unix.c
I'm not sure if this is the latest source; I didn't bother to check.
Even if you can't read C, the comments at the top make it cl
I had some speculation as to just
what dos2unix actually *does *. Andy White provided the information, for
which I am grateful.
I knew it "regularised" the line endings, but some colleagues thought that
wiithin - line peculiarities could be corrected as well.
Didn't know about setting modes wit
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