It can when used as filter:

$ uname -a
HP-UX donaldduck B.11.11 U 9000/800 1909236376 unlimited-user license
$ perl -wE'say"x" x 1022,"\r"for 0..2100000' > data.dos
$ ls -l data.dos
-rw-rw-rw- 1 merijn softwr 2150401024 Mar 14 15:58 data.dos
$ dos2ux data.dos
dos2ux: cannot open data.dos
$ dos2ux <data.dos >data.ux
$ ls -l data.ux
-rw-rw-rw- 1 merijn softwr 2148301023 Mar 14 16:08 data.ux

[download]

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

In reply to Re: dos2ux shows cannot open file if it is greater than 2GB size by Tux
in thread dos2ux shows cannot open file if it is greater than 2GB size by shan_emails

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