Shell Programming and Scripting

Greetings ..

I recently came across an issue with dos2unix and couldn't find an answer. I tried out in several methods and thought will reach for help

I am doing a recursive dos2unix on a folder that has text files, .class , jars , lib, txt etc .. in a unix server. The dos2unix by default should ignore the binaries (in my case class , jars , zip etc) is my understanding but in my case it converts these binary files (.class,.jars ) and I run in to issue as they are corrupted. Can you please help if I need to use differently..

I use ::

Code:

find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} {} \;

Let me know .. thanks for your patience in dealing with this .

Code:

find . -type f -exec grep -Iq . {} \; -and -print | xargs dos2unix -

You can use find based on file names I picked names randomly you need to select ones you want to exclude.

Code:

find /path/to/files -type f  !  \( -name '*.jar' -o -name '*.zip' -o -name '*.class' \) -exec dos2unix  {} {} \;

Test your list by simply not having an -exec clause in your test statement.

Is there a reason your IDE cannot produce .txt files without the windows \r carriage control character?

Note: rdrtx1 gave you an example based on GNU grep, which will work fine. You did not specify your platform

Thanks Jim.

I have all files are in a code repository, my build system is in WIN and i need to copy back to several Unix destination servers. So compilation is on WIN and target is on Unix.

For doing below.,i need to know the all the file extensions, am i right ? is there a way that i can mention to ignore all "binary files". This will keep the scripts running for long time without issues ( if my 'source dir' get a new binary extension files)

Code:

find /path/to/files -type f  !  \( -name '*.jar' -o -name '*.zip' -o -name '*.class' \) -exec dos2unix  {} {} \;