I use lots of things across systems, and have used the command: dos2unix <xxx.txt >temp.txt for years to accomplish this task. Well, imagine my surprise when it failed to work today. I don't know when dos2unix was last visited, but it no longer works. Its simple effect on Microsoft files was to change the carriage return (^M) to linefeed (^j). This time it passed the file through unchanged. I can write my own version in about 2 seconds, but I am curious why such a simple and useful function acquired numerous flags and options, and then broke. This is a great example of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it!" Just for your information: [lesh@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/dos2unix -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15868 2007-02-06 08:45 /usr/bin/dos2unix [lesh@localhost ~]$ which dos2unix /usr/bin/dos2unix [lesh@localhost ~]$ I have to admit I probably haven't used it locally since upgrading to FC7 from FC5. Regards, Les H
