dos2unix Package Description
This package contains utilities dos2unix, unix2dos, mac2unix, unix2mac to convert the line endings of text files between UNIX (LF), DOS (CRLF) and Mac (CR) formats. Text files under Windows and DOS typically have two ASCII characters at the end of each line: CR (carriage return) followed by LF (line feed). Older Macs used just CR, while UNIX uses just LF. While most modern editors can read all these formats, there may still be a need to convert files between them. This is the classic utility developed in 1989.
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- Author: Erwin Waterlander, Christian Wurll, Bernd Johannes Wuebben, Benjamin Lin
- License: FreeBSD
Tools included in the dos2unix package
unix2dos – Convert from unix to dos
[email protected]:~# unix2dos -h
unix2dos 6.0 (2012-05-06)
Usage: unix2dos [options] [file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
-ascii convert only line breaks (default)
-iso conversion between DOS and ISO-8859-1 character set
-1252 Use Windows code page 1252 (Western European)
-437 Use DOS code page 437 (US) (default)
-850 Use DOS code page 850 (Western European)
-860 Use DOS code page 860 (Portuguese)
-863 Use DOS code page 863 (French Canadian)
-865 Use DOS code page 865 (Nordic)
-7 Convert 8 bit characters to 7 bit space
-c, --convmode conversion mode
convmode ascii, 7bit, iso, mac, default to ascii
-f, --force force conversion of binary files
-h, --help give this help
-k, --keepdate keep output file date
-L, --license display software license
-l, --newline add additional newline
-m, --add-bom add UTF-8 Byte Order Mark
-n, --newfile write to new file
infile original file in new file mode
outfile output file in new file mode
-o, --oldfile write to old file
file ... files to convert in old file mode
-q, --quiet quiet mode, suppress all warnings
always on in stdio mode
-s, --safe skip binary files (default)
-F, --follow-symlink follow symbolic links and convert the targets
-R, --replace-symlink replace symbolic links with converted files
(original target files remain unchanged)
-S, --skip-symlink keep symbolic links and targets unchanged (default)
-V, --version display version number
unix2mac – Convert from unix to mac
[email protected]:~# unix2mac -h
unix2mac 6.0 (2012-05-06)
Usage: unix2mac [options] [file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
-ascii convert only line breaks (default)
-iso conversion between DOS and ISO-8859-1 character set
-1252 Use Windows code page 1252 (Western European)
-437 Use DOS code page 437 (US) (default)
-850 Use DOS code page 850 (Western European)
-860 Use DOS code page 860 (Portuguese)
-863 Use DOS code page 863 (French Canadian)
-865 Use DOS code page 865 (Nordic)
-7 Convert 8 bit characters to 7 bit space
-c, --convmode conversion mode
convmode ascii, 7bit, iso, mac, default to ascii
-f, --force force conversion of binary files
-h, --help give this help
-k, --keepdate keep output file date
-L, --license display software license
-l, --newline add additional newline
-m, --add-bom add UTF-8 Byte Order Mark
-n, --newfile write to new file
infile original file in new file mode
outfile output file in new file mode
-o, --oldfile write to old file
file ... files to convert in old file mode
-q, --quiet quiet mode, suppress all warnings
always on in stdio mode
-s, --safe skip binary files (default)
-F, --follow-symlink follow symbolic links and convert the targets
-R, --replace-symlink replace symbolic links with converted files
(original target files remain unchanged)
-S, --skip-symlink keep symbolic links and targets unchanged (default)
-V, --version display version number
dos2unix – Convert from dos to unix
[email protected]:~# dos2unix -h
dos2unix 6.0 (2012-05-06)
Usage: dos2unix [options] [file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
-ascii convert only line breaks (default)
-iso conversion between DOS and ISO-8859-1 character set
-1252 Use Windows code page 1252 (Western European)
-437 Use DOS code page 437 (US) (default)
-850 Use DOS code page 850 (Western European)
-860 Use DOS code page 860 (Portuguese)
-863 Use DOS code page 863 (French Canadian)
-865 Use DOS code page 865 (Nordic)
-7 Convert 8 bit characters to 7 bit space
-c, --convmode conversion mode
convmode ascii, 7bit, iso, mac, default to ascii
-f, --force force conversion of binary files
-h, --help give this help
-k, --keepdate keep output file date
-L, --license display software license
-l, --newline add additional newline
-m, --add-bom add UTF-8 Byte Order Mark
-n, --newfile write to new file
infile original file in new file mode
outfile output file in new file mode
-o, --oldfile write to old file
file ... files to convert in old file mode
-q, --quiet quiet mode, suppress all warnings
always on in stdio mode
-s, --safe skip binary files (default)
-F, --follow-symlink follow symbolic links and convert the targets
-R, --replace-symlink replace symbolic links with converted files
(original target files remain unchanged)
-S, --skip-symlink keep symbolic links and targets unchanged (default)
-V, --version display version number
mac2unix – Convert from mac to unix
[email protected]:~# mac2unix -h
mac2unix 6.0 (2012-05-06)
Usage: mac2unix [options] [file ...] [-n infile outfile ...]
-ascii convert only line breaks (default)
-iso conversion between DOS and ISO-8859-1 character set
-1252 Use Windows code page 1252 (Western European)
-437 Use DOS code page 437 (US) (default)
-850 Use DOS code page 850 (Western European)
-860 Use DOS code page 860 (Portuguese)
-863 Use DOS code page 863 (French Canadian)
-865 Use DOS code page 865 (Nordic)
-7 Convert 8 bit characters to 7 bit space
-c, --convmode conversion mode
convmode ascii, 7bit, iso, mac, default to ascii
-f, --force force conversion of binary files
-h, --help give this help
-k, --keepdate keep output file date
-L, --license display software license
-l, --newline add additional newline
-m, --add-bom add UTF-8 Byte Order Mark
-n, --newfile write to new file
infile original file in new file mode
outfile output file in new file mode
-o, --oldfile write to old file
file ... files to convert in old file mode
-q, --quiet quiet mode, suppress all warnings
always on in stdio mode
-s, --safe skip binary files (default)
-F, --follow-symlink follow symbolic links and convert the targets
-R, --replace-symlink replace symbolic links with converted files
(original target files remain unchanged)
-S, --skip-symlink keep symbolic links and targets unchanged (default)
-V, --version display version number
unix2dos Usage Example
[email protected]:~# unix2dos -n unix.txt dos.txt
unix2dos: converting file unix.txt to file dos.txt in DOS format ...
unix2mac Usage Example
[email protected]:~# unix2mac -n unix.txt mac.txt
unix2mac: converting file unix.txt to file mac.txt in Mac format ...
dos2unix Usage Example
[email protected]:~# dos2unix -n dos.txt unix2.txt
dos2unix: converting file dos.txt to file unix2.txt in Unix format ...
mac2unix Usage Example
[email protected]:~# mac2unix -n mac.txt unix3.txt
mac2unix: converting file mac.txt to file unix3.txt in Unix format ...