On Thursday 24 February 2005 18:39, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
>Am Fr, den 25.02.2005 schrieb H. Streit um 0:14:
>> Okay, one of our programmers wants to start porting over a unix
>> app he wrote to *shudder* windows. In order to do this, he's
>> mounted his home directory to his windows box via samba, now he's
>> trying to copy over the sourcecode, but he's having that infamous
>> "UNIX-to-DOS text file format" issue (a.k.a LF vs CRLF). He's
>> trying to write a batch file using gvim to convert all these
>> files...and everything works if you type-out everything at the
>> cmd.exe prompt, but the batch file won't batch...here's what he's
>> got
>>
>> gvim -c "set ff=dos" -c "saveas source.i" -c x
>> -<H:\username\src\source.i gvim -c "set ff=dos" -c "saveas
>> source.h" -c x -<H:\username\src\source.h gvim -c "set ff=dos" -c
>> "saveas source.c" -c x -<H:\username\src\source.c
>>
>> any suggestions?
>
>You can do conversion using Linux command line with "unix2dos"
> binary. Please see "man unix2dos" for possible parameters. With
> "dos2unix" you can do reverse.
>
>cd /path/to/src/directory
>for file in ls; do unix2dos ${file}; done
>
>Alexander
Thats even better than my tr suggestion, Alexander, thanks.
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