Re: dos2unix line endings on Windows

... or download some existing dos2unix tool ...

I actually use 'dos2unix.exe', which ships with Cygwin - though I didn't install Cygwin just for that tool (nor would I recommend doing so).

Despite the general warnings about "re-inventing wheels", there's no denying that one does learn more from doing just that, than from simply using pre-existing tools (as you well understand :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: dos2unix line endings on Windows by Sinistral (Monsignor) on Feb 11, 2010 at 13:32 UTC
Agreed, installing the entire Cygwin compatibility layer for dos2unix/unix2dos would be overkill. I have found that when searching for Windows compiled versions of some common *nix utility, GnuWin32 often saves the day. In this case, they have a native compiled conv, u2d, and d2u (aka convert line endings, unix2dos, and dos2unix): http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/cygutils.htm A quick Google of perl unix2dos also came up with this handy link for additional Perl scripts: http://technocage.com/~caskey/dos2unix/	[reply]
Re^3: dos2unix line endings on Windows by flamey (Scribe) on Feb 11, 2010 at 15:13 UTC
the one liners in that last link won't work on Windows w/o setting PERLIO environmental variable: set PERLIO=perlio . took me 5 hours to find this out blush the Perl script probably will, but I didn't try it	[reply]
Re^4: dos2unix line endings on Windows by Anonymous Monk on Nov 10, 2019 at 10:23 UTC
Thanks!!!! This tip was really helpful :)	[reply]