UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Greetings-
are there any pitfalls/costs/etc to be aware of using the "$dos2unix <filename>" utility in Solaris 8? does it really work as simply as it's described / recommended in other threads ?

We want to establish the procedure / develop a script or procedure to automatically strip out ^M characters from dos-edited files transferred up to a Solaris 8 box, but want to be sure that we're not creating any other headaches by using this-

thanks for sharing any experiences with this-

File formats on UNIX and other platforms (win, mac) differ in the way they interpret newline char (LF on UNIX, CRLF on win, CR on mac)... I have used dos2ux on hp-ux and I didn't see any problems with it..

as I expected it replaced CRLF with a LF so that I don't see the ^M (vi shows a CR as ^M)...

if you want to verify it in a test that nothing else is changed, you can try sed or some utility to add a CR to the dos2ux output and reverse compare it with the original dos file

fyi, CR = 015 and LF = 012 in octal...