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Re: DOS/Windows > UNIX text file conversion utility
Subject:Re: DOS/Windows > UNIX text file conversion utility From:Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com> To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:50:22 -0800
How about a command-line driven macro created in Notepad++. I've not tried
this, but feel it's worth a look. Check out the online documentation for
Notepad++ and possibly query its forum members.
> Chris
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:
> Yeah, I looked at a bunch of those before posting.
>
> I'd prefer a utility that will take wildcards and recurse
> subdirectories. Something like:
>
> win2unix *.txt /s
>
> I could write a batch file for a one-file-at-a-time utility but I'd
> rather not remember all that again.
>
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Monique Semp
> <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> wrote:
> > There seem to be all sorts of utilities that result from a google search
> for
> > "dos to unix converter" -- this one looks full-featured and
> > straight-forward: http://www.thefreecountry.com/tofrodos/index.shtml
> >
> > (Or am I overlooking a requirement that makes this not so
> straight-forward?)
> >
> > HTH,
> > -Monique
>
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