topic dos2ux using sed in Operating System - HP-UX

dos2ux using sed

Christian Deutsch_1 — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:17:14 GMT

Hi there,

I want to use dos2ux functionality on both HP-UX and Solaris. Since I didn't find dos2ux on Solaris I thought of this:

sed s/$/\`/ < oldwinfile | tr '`' '\015' > newwinfile

A colleague expressed concern that oldwinfile might contain a backtick (`) character, then this would not work.

Any ideas?

The first three useful responses will be rewarded with points!

Remember that the solution must work on BOTH HP-UX and Solaris.

Thanks, Christian

Re: dos2ux using sed

Robert-Jan Goossens — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 06:52:53 GMT

Hi Cristian,

Try dos2unix on solaris (solaris 8 on my workstations has got it)

Regards,
Robert-Jan

Re: dos2ux using sed

Nicolas Dumeige — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:08:10 GMT

Hello,

On Solaris 5.8 :
# type dos2unix
dos2unix is a tracked alias for /bin/dos2unix

Cheers

Nicolas

Re: dos2ux using sed

Nicolas Dumeige — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:12:15 GMT

If you don't find it, there's a lot a C source on the web, like this one :

http://www.grubinski.com/grubinski/dos2unix.c

If you just want to get rid of the line feed :
sed -e 's/^M//g' filename
(^M is done with CTRL+M)

Re: dos2ux using sed

Christian Deutsch_1 — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:18:30 GMT

I'm done.

Thanks folks.

Sorry I type the title wrong, should have been ux2dos, not dos2ux.

I won't promise any points for further replies (sorry).

Re: dos2ux using sed

Bharat Katkar — Thu, 29 Apr 2004 07:36:29 GMT

On HP it is ux2dos:

#ux2dos file1 > file2