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[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 03:32:26PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> 
> On Ven 27 mai 2005 15:22, Enrico Scholz a écrit :
> > buildsys at redhat.com (Build System) writes:
> >
> >> Removed package recode
> >
> > What are the alternatives? base64<->data or dos2unix conversions are
> > common tasks and should be solved by Core packages.
> 
> dos2unix covers he main recode use case but recode does a lot more than
> dos2unix. It's invaluable when you need encoding conversions in a shell
> script

Encoding conversions in a shell script can be done with iconv(1).

	Jakub