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[Nicolas Mailhot]

On Ven 27 mai 2005 15:42, Jakub Jelinek a écrit :
> 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).

Seems nice. Thanks for the tip. I won't miss recode afterall.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot