Re: Q: Mass Text convert Linux-DOS?
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Christopher Mosley wrote:
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> On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
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> > Jonathan Gift wrote:
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> > > 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
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> > find ~/documents -type f -exec recode latin1..ibmpc '{}' \;
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> > see man find
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> > don't forget to backup before you experiment!
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> > erik
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> You can also recursively *zip* into directories using the the zip LF CR
> conversion options, then unzip. This is not really what zip is for and it is
> a problem if you are short on disk disk space but it a way to do what
> you want.
Just woke up. This of course for line endings, not character conversion.
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