in reply to Re^3: IO::Handles ... any good?
in thread IO::Handles ... any good?

Windows shell would be

for %q in (*.txt) do perl -pe"$_.=$/" "%q" > "%q.new"

And a golfed version would be

perl -nEsay # 5.10 perl -pe$_.=$/ # <5.10 Windows perl -pe'$_.=$/' # <5.10 bash