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Old 08-18-2011
Convert directory of text files to Unix/Linux Line Ending
I need help converting a directory of *.txt with Windows line ending to UTF-8 character encoding and Unix/Linux line ending.
Last edited by chipperuga; 08-18-2011 at 11:36 AM..
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Old 08-18-2011
Usually, you would use tools like dos2ux or dos2unix, do you have any (name may differ according to OS...)
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Old 08-18-2011
Available in a repository?

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Thanks for the quick response, @vbe.
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Old 08-18-2011
that a look here https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...trol-ms-m.html
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Old 08-18-2011
Miscellaneous software tools (need to be compiled...)
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Old 08-18-2011
Not having much luck with dos2unix. How would I change all files in a directory from UNICODE to UTF-8?

Can't get this to work...
Code:
dos2unix -f UNICODE -t UTF-8 *

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Old 08-18-2011
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Originally Posted by chipperuga
How would I change all files in a directory from UNICODE to UTF-8?
That question doesn't really make much sense. Unicode is not an encoding; it is a character set. UTF-8 is one of many ways to encode the Unicode character set. This means you have yet to state the source's encoding.

In any case, you probably want to take a look at iconv for the transcoding aspect of the task.

Regards,
Alister
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