I believe I stand corrected :) I didn't take a close enough look the
first time. Sorry if I mislead anyone.
At 09:27 AM 2/12/99 -0800, you wrote:
>you sure about that? it looks to me like erics solutions will do every
>file in the directory. its piping the output from the ls command into
>gawk, which strips the carriage return then redirects its output into
>a temp file. it then renames the temp file to the original file.
>
>i might recommend tho, that you rename the temp file as the original
>file into a different directory. just in case.(you dont really need to
>tho. if your arent paranoid)
>
>if you make sure that you have only text files(ie source code) in the
>directory you run this is, it should work fine.
>
>i dont have much experience with awk however, so you may be right. in
>which case, i apologize. but this is cool. i guess i'll have to do some
>playing around with it.
>
>"Mark A. Heilpern" wrote:
>>
>> What Eric presented was an alternative to your dos2unix tool, not a way
>> to handle an entire directory. How you script a mass conversion is
>> based on the shell you use. As long as you've got bash in /bin/bash,
>> try:
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>> for filename in *.c; do
>> dos2unix $filename >_tmp_file
>> mv _tmp_file $filename
>> done
>> #--------- end of the script. make the script executable!
>>
>> You'll note I didn't rename the file to have a k on the end, I just
>> made it more simple since it's a temp file only.
>>
>> At 11:02 AM 2/12/99 -0600, you wrote:
>> >try something like....
>> >
>> >/bin/ls -1 | gawk '{system("tr -d \"\\015\" < "$1" > "$1".tmp");system("mv
>> >"$1".tmp "$1);}'
>> >
>> >Eric
>> >
>> >> dos2unix act.comm.c > act.comm.ck
>> >> mv act.comm.ck act.comm.c
>> >> dos2unix ban.c > ban.ck
>> >> mv ban.ck ban.c
>> >> etc etc...
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