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Manual Reference Pages  - dos2unix (1)

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NAME

dos2unix - DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter

CONTENTS

Synopsys
Description
Options
Examples
Diagnostics
Bugs
Authors
Miscellany
See Also

dos2unix [options] [-c convmode] [-o file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]

Options:

[-hkqV] [--help] [--keepdate] [--quiet] [--version]

This manual page documents dos2unix, the program that converts plain text files in DOS/MAC format to UNIX format.

The following options are available:

-h --help
	Print online help.
-k --keepdate
	Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.
-q --quiet
	Quiet mode. Suppress all warning and messages.
-V --version
	Prints version information.
-c --convmode convmode
	Sets conversion mode. Simulates dos2unix under SunOS.
-o --oldfile file ...
	Old file mode. Convert the file and write output to it. The program default to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.
-n --newfile infile outfile ...
	New file mode. Convert the infile and write output to outfile. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should NOT be used or you WILL lost your files.

Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

	dos2unix
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.
	dos2unix a.txt b.txt
	dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt in ASCII conversion mode. Convert and replace b.txt in ISO conversion mode. Convert c.txt from Mac to Unix ascii format.
	dos2unix a.txt -c iso b.txt
	dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c iso b.txt
	dos2unix -c mac a.txt b.txt
Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.
	dos2unix -k a.txt
	dos2unix -k -o a.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.
	dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt
Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as a.txt.
	dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt
Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.
	dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
	dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.
	dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

The program does not work properly under MSDOS in stdio processing mode. If you know why is that so, please tell me.

Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au>

Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix mode) <wuebben@kde.org>

Tested environment:

	Linux 1.2.0 with GNU C 2.5.8
	SunOS 4.1.3 with GNU C 2.6.3
	MS-DOS 6.20 with Borland C++ 4.02

Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.

unix2dos(1) mac2unix(1)

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