UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers

awk '{printf("%s\015\n", $0)}' $1 > $2

 chmod 775 ux2dos

 ./ux2dos hello.txt newhello.txt

ort-f/vbe $ ./ux2dos 0001.txt 0001_conv.txt
mnas:/port-f/vbe $ cat -v 0001_conv.txt
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9^M
1 2 3 4 5^M
3 4 5 6^M
5 6 7^M
6 7^M
mnas:/port-f/vbe $ cat 0001_conv.txt
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
5 6 7
6 7

mnas:/port-f/vbe $ alias ux2dos='sed "s/ \{1,\}$/^M/" | sed "$ s/^Z//"'
mnas:/port-f/vbe $ cat 0001_conv.txt| ux2dos
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 4 5
3 4 5 6
5 6 7
6 7
mnas:/port-f/vbe $ cat -v 0001_conv.txt| ux2dos
 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9^M
1 2 3 4 5^M
3 4 5 6^M
5 6 7^M
6 7^M
mnas:/port-f/vbe $ which ux2dos
mnas:/port-f/vbe $                                              # no answer meaning the above used the alias...

cat -v hello.txt | mailx -s "Alert" mymail@mycom.com

more ux2dos
 awk '{printf("%s\015\n", $0)}' $1 > $2
 chmod 775 ux2dos
 ./ux2dos hello.txt hello1.txt
 cat -ev hello1.txt
 1^M
 2^M
 3^M
 cat hello1.txt | mailx -s "Alert" mymail@mycom.com

 
 alias ux2dos='sed "s/ \{1,\}$/^M/" | sed "$ s/^Z//"'
  
 which ux2dos
alias ux2dos='sed "s/ \{1,\}$/^M/" | sed "$ s/^Z//"'
        /bin/sed
        /bin/sed

bash$ cat -v hello.txt | ux2dos | mailx -s "Alert" mymail@mycom.com

 
  
 1^M2^M3^M

 cat -v hello.txt | ux2dos

cat 0001_conv.txt| ux2dos |\mail -s "testing newline MS " vbe@....

 
 ./ux2dos hello.txt hello1.txt
  
 cat -v hello.txt | ux2dos
 1
 2
 3
  
 cat -v hello1.txt | ux2dos
 1^M
 2^M
 3^M