help w/ a unix command please..

[Chau]

is there a command in unix called "dos2unix"? one of my ta's for my java class said that i should use that..because i write my code in wordpad in windows xp, and then i upload it to the class server which runs on a unix machine.. and we're suppose to go to the lab to program on the unix machines... the TA said that my code showed up w/ a bunch of "^M"'s at the end of each line.. and said it was because my code was in dos mode an that i needed to convert it to unix mode?

any help with this please?

thanks

 

[Entity]

Yes, dos2unix converts files from dos carriage returns to unix.

syntax: dos2unix <filename>

for example, dos2unix *.php will convert all the files with extensions .php from dos CR's to unix.

Rob

 

[Heisenberg]

I seem to recall there was a program by that name or close to it. Basically what is happening is Wordpad uses ^M to represent line breaks. *nix doesn't like that. All you need to do is use an editor in Windows that does it properly. Check out something like vim - they have a Windows version.

 

[AgentEL]

in vi you can use

:%s/^M//g

To get "^M" hold the control key, press V then M

 

[notfred]

Well for one, I'd recoomend you get a non-POS text editor that let's you save w/ unix foprmat newline characters.

second, try this: perl -e 's/\r//g;' FILENAME

 

[Chau]

thanks guys... i tried dos2unix filename and it showed the code in the window w/out the ^M's, but when i opened it in the terminal w/ a text editor in unix it'd still show the ^M's.. i did the code that notfred gave me... and it worked the first time i tried it.. so i edited some more stuff.. but now when i do that code it wont work anymore

 

[Chau]

ahh i used textpad before and just found out on it i can save to unix format

so i got it fixed now, thanks

 

[fatkorean]

Try this, it can save to unix files convert etc... a much better text editor imho and its free.editpad lite

-fk