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Homework and Emergencies Homework & Coursework Questions Convert ASCII Text, with CRLF Post 302927831 by salincer on Friday 5th of December 2014 08:47:31 PM
Old 12-05-2014
Sorry for thread jacking but I am working on the same assignment. I am able to use unix2dos in my script. Here is my script:
Code:
#!/bin/sh  
for file in "$@"  do         
if file $file | grep "ASCII text, with CRLF"; then              
echo "converting $file"              
dos2unix $file     
fi    
done

When the finaltest.pl is ran, this is what I get (with debugging)

Code:
Checking stage 3 
for file in "$@" 
do 
if file $file | grep "ASCII text, with CRLF"; then 
echo "converting $file" 
dos2unix $file 
fi 
done 
+ file aardvark.cpp 
+ grep ASCII text, with CRLF 
+ echo converting aardvark.cpp 
+ dos2unix aardvark.cpp dos2unix: converting file aardvark.cpp to Unix format ... 
+ + grepfile ASCII text, with CRLF  
bongo.dat 
+ + grep ASCII text, with CRLF 
file cat.dog.bak  

Failed when running: ./asciiFix.sh 'aardvark.cpp' 'bongo.dat' 'cat.dog.bak'

 

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