New bug found (I think)

Aaron Konstam akonstam at sbcglobal.net
Sat Apr 12 21:10:16 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 12:21 -0700, Les wrote:
> I use lots of things across systems, and have used the command:
> 
> 	dos2unix <xxx.txt >temp.txt
> 
> for years to accomplish this task.  Well, imagine my surprise when it
> failed to work today.  I don't know when dos2unix was last visited, but
> it no longer works.  Its simple effect on Microsoft files was to change
> the carriage return (^M) to linefeed (^j).  This time it passed the file
> through unchanged.  
> 
> I can write my own version in about 2 seconds, but I am curious why such
> a simple and useful function acquired numerous flags and options, and
> then broke.  This is a great example of "if it ain't broke, don't fix
> it!"
> 
> Just for your information:
> 
> [lesh at localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/bin/dos2unix
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15868 2007-02-06 08:45 /usr/bin/dos2unix
> [lesh at localhost ~]$ which dos2unix
> /usr/bin/dos2unix
> [lesh at localhost ~]$ 
> 
> 	I have to admit I probably haven't used it locally since upgrading to
> FC7 from FC5.
> 
> Regards,
> Les H
> 
This can be done in vi very easily by the collowing command:
:1,$s/^V^M//
Where ^=ctrl
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