UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

$dos2unix is a variable; that might work if a correct command is assigned to this var. Were it dos2unix, it would be the wrong direction. What's the output of your pipe without mailx...? I think dos2unix doesn't work on stdin and stdout but needs two - possibly identcal - filenames to read from and write to.

I mentionned $ux2dos and not dos2unix... and as Rudi mentionned its a variable that is why I said is twas the pathand correct name of the utility as it cand differ depending of OS flavour...
You are converting unix file to dos sytem not the other way round.... please pay attention to what users post before replying "its not working"....

I have it as variable because using scripts/jobs doing the same on different OS I have to put in variable what changes depending OS, some systems I had to write my own version... so you can have custom ux2dos, standard ux2dos and standard unix2dos etc.... and depending of implemtation they will not always be in /usr/bin ...

I use it like that ( piped for mail because we have outlook...) but my ux2dos is a custom complied by me... So you would have to chack first what is the result of the pipe to see if it work ( mosts cases ...) because I cannot guarantee ( tested mostly on true UNIX systems... but not on linux...)

Hi.

The dos2unix package:

Code:

OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 3.16.0-4-amd64, x86_64
Distribution        : Debian 8.6 (jessie) 
dos2unix 6.0.4 (2013-12-30)

contains a few utilities. One, unix2dos, can work like this:

Code:

$ cat z5 | tee >(od -bc > o1) | unix2dos | od -bc > o2
$ head o?

producing:

Code:

==> o1 <==
0000000 141 012 142 012 143 012
          a  \n   b  \n   c  \n
0000006

==> o2 <==
0000000 141 015 012 142 015 012 143 015 012
          a  \r  \n   b  \r  \n   c  \r  \n
0000011

If you don't have the dos2unix package, then you might be able to use:

Code:

$ cat z5 | tee >(od -bc > o1) | perl -pe 's/\012/\015\012/g' | od -bc > o2
$ head o?
==> o1 <==
0000000 141 012 142 012 143 012
          a  \n   b  \n   c  \n
0000006

==> o2 <==
0000000 141 015 012 142 015 012 143 015 012
          a  \r  \n   b  \r  \n   c  \r  \n
0000011

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

Hi,

Have you tried like below? If not please try once, it might help.

Code:

echo "1\n" >>hello.txt
echo "2\n" >>hello.txt
echo "3\n" >>hello.txt

Thanks.

Does not Help.

When i run the command with $ux2dos i get

Code:

Null message body; hope that's ok

Also cat hello.txt| $ux2dos reveals no output. Only cat hello.txt does.

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Does not Help !!

Code:

cat hello.txt 
1\n
2\n
3\n

Please be a bit creative and try to adapt the hints/proposals given to your problem. WHAT is the contents of the $ux2dos variable? If it is not the empty string, what is the result of running it against a simple example file? What is the result of it running in a pipe but NOT piped to a further command?

$ux2dos is empty.

Also, i do NOT wish to use or even have perl

I also tried @madman's suggestion of Also dos2unix command is NOT found on my Linux

I then proceeded to do this but no success

Code:

tr -d '\r' < hello.txt > hellow.txt1
mv hello.txt1 hello.txt

I dont know if there are any more suggestions to try.