Jonathan Gift wrote:
...
> I have a great many text files I have to convert from Linux to DOS
> format. I tries recode by hand once but it took hours. There has to be an
> automatic way.
...
> for file in ~/documents; do
> recode latin1..ibmpc $file
> done
find ~/documents -type f -exec recode latin1..ibmpc '{}' \;
see man find
don't forget to backup before you experiment!
erik