dos2unix???

[Peter Elsner]

Here's a small Perl script... Name it dtox and placed it in your 
/usr/local/bin directory...

#!/usr/bin/perl
# SCRIPT: dtox
# AUTHOR: Peter Elsner <peter at servplex.com>
# PURPOSE: Convert Text files from DOS to UNIX (remove ^M's)
#

while (<>) {
         if ($ARGV ne $OLDARGV) {
                 rename($ARGV, $ARGV . '.bak');
                 open(ARGVOUT, ">$ARGV");
                 select(ARGVOUT);
                 $OLDARGV=$ARGV;
         }
         s/^M//g;
}
continue {
         print;
}

select(STDOUT);
exit;


Use it as follows:

% dtox filename

A back up file is created filename.bak and then a new file is created with 
the ^M's removed...

Peter


At 10:41 AM 4/15/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Is there an equivalent dos2unix program that will strip out DOS character
>codes from text files?
>
>Thanks,
>Anthony
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