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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers file migration windows -> unix Post 302211148 by togr on Wednesday 2nd of July 2008 04:51:28 PM
Old 07-02-2008
> I've spent all of my career on windows boxes and maybe 30 secs here an there with unix.

First of all: Congratulations!
I am in an opposite situation: changed work recently and moved to windows-based environment. I feel like somone cut off my hands, you'll probably understand me very well :-)

Anyway let's get down to business.
Regarding all flavours of text files (including html files of course) there is a mojor difference that you should be aware off:
the famous "newline" character.
Windows writes newlines as CRLF (two characters: carriage-return and line-feed) while UNIX writes newlines simply as LF.

So when'll you copy files from windows system expect to see an extra character at the end of line (often seen as "^M").
The good news: there are 1001 ways to remove that unnecesary character: one of the best ways is to use dos2unix command.

There are other ways to get rid of this character: from manually editing the file (in fact it's just a character that has to be removed) to using simple perl one-liners (that is one-line long scripts) like:
perl -i -pe 's/\r//g' file.
There are also options for zip that fix newline issue depending on the target system, that is system where you intend tu un-zip.

I hope I was helpful at leas a little. bye
 

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x-tile

X-TILE(1)						      General Commands Manual							 X-TILE(1)

NAME

       x-tile - select windows and adjust their tiling

SYNOPSIS

       x-tile [option][rows][columns]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the x-tile command.

       x-tile is a program that allows tiling selected windows as desired.

       In addition of the predefined tilings, it allows user to create up to two user defined tilings to be applied later.

       It also provides a system tray icon for faster access to tiling menu.

OPTIONS

       This program doesn't follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). Instead, it uses case sen-
       sitive single letter options, followed by arguments when required.  A summary of options is included below.

       w      Open the x-tile main window without using the panel.

       z      Undo the latest tiling operation.

       v      Tile all opened windows vertically.

       h      Tile all opened windows horizontally.

       u      Tile all opened windows triangularly, top up.

       d      Tile all opened windows triangularly, top down.

       l      Tile all opened windows triangularly, top left.

       r      Tile all opened windows triangularly, top right.

       q      Tile all opened windows in a four square grid.

       g      Tile all opened windows in a grid with the given rows and columns.

       1      Apply user defined tiling #1 to all opened windows.

       2      Apply user defined tiling #2 to all opened windows.

       i      Invert the order of the latest tiling operation.

       m      Maximize all opened windows.

       M      Unmaximize all opened windows.

       c      Close all opened windows.

       Any other
	      Show a brief summary of options.

AUTHORS

       x-tile was written by Giuseppe Penone <giuspen@gmail.com> and Chris Camacho <chris_camacho@yahoo.com>.

       This manual page was written by Ricardo Mones <mones@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

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