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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers txt file gets messed up during transfer from my Desktop Post 302538914 by Corona688 on Thursday 14th of July 2011 01:26:28 PM
Old 07-14-2011
sftp always transfers in binary mode, it has no ASCII translation mode. Which is unfortunate since this is one of the rare times when an ASCII translation mode would be useful instead of annoying.

The file isn't actually being mangled. Windows just demands CPM-style text files with CR-LF instead of the plain CR UNIX text files use.

You can translate a file from UNIX cr's into Windows CR-LF's in OSX with
Code:
 awk '{ print $0 "\r" }' < infile > outfile

Usually you can use sed 's/$/\r/' < infile > outfile but OSX's ridiculously old sed doesn't support \r. Some systems also have dos2unix and unix2dos text translation utilities.
 

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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

gnome-desktop-item-edit

gnome-desktop-item-edit(1)					   User Commands					gnome-desktop-item-edit(1)

NAME

       gnome-desktop-item-edit - GNOME Desktop file editor

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-desktop-item-edit [--create-new] filename

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-desktop-item-edit	is  the GNOME Desktop file editor, which you can use to create or edit the .desktop (known as desktop) file. GNOME
       uses a standard desktop file specification as proposed by freedesktop.org.  A desktop file consists of a number of  name-value  pairs  that
       define  how  a  desktop	should organize a particular application. As this is defined as an open standard, integration of applications into
       GNOME Desktop is relatively straightforward.

       A basic entry in the desktop file must start with a tag called [Desktop Entry]. It can then have a number of name-value pairs as defined by
       the standard.  The minimum entries are as follows:

       Name		       the name of the application

       Comment		       a textual description of the application which is displayed as a tooltip message by gnome-panel. When set appropri-
			       ately, the comment can be localized within the same file.

       Exec		       the name of the actual executable

       Icon		       the file name of the icon image

       Type		       the desktop file type

       Categories	       a multi-string field which is used by gnome-panel to group applications into the appropriate categories.

       These desktop files provide the information to gnome-panel, which     places the application in the appropriate locations on the panel.	In
       a similar manner, the GNOME file manager (Nautilus) uses information from the desktop files to display the 'applications:///' view.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       --create-new    Creates a new .desktop file.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       filename        The name of the desktop file to be edited or viewed.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1: Editing an existing .desktop file

       example% gnome-desktop-item-edit fullpath/filename

       This command invokes the launcher dialog and loads the contents of the specified desktop file into the relevant fields.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	Application exited successfully

       >0	Application exited with failure

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gnome-desktop-iExecutable for GNOME Desktop file editor

       /usr/share/applications/Desktopofile

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWgnome-panel		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability	     |External			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       gnome-panel(1), nautilus(1)

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

NOTES

       Written by Ghee Teo, Sun Microsystems  Inc., 2003.

SunOS 5.10							    2 Oct 2003						gnome-desktop-item-edit(1)
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