[Samba] Perl file conversion (dos2unix)

Logan Shaw lshaw at emitinc.com
Mon Jun 26 19:04:55 GMT 2006


On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, JStrother at ldry.com wrote:
> In samba digest volume 1 #199 there is a post entitled "Plain text file
> transfer problem".  In there it states that there is a perl script that
> will do file translations from dos to unix.  Would it be possible for me
> to get a copy of that?

You might like this?

 	perl -pe 's/\r//g' foo.dos.txt > foo.unix.txt

All you have to do to convert a DOS text file to Unix is remove
the carriage returns; that leaves you with linefeeds only,
which is what Unix uses.

   - Logan


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