[ale] Batch processing text files

Joe Bayes jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com
Fri Dec 7 01:30:41 EST 2007


Jerry Yu writes:

>dos2unix converts the file in-place, therefore the structure ( assume you
>meant directory structure) is intact.

But I thought he wanted the structure in a new location, not replacing
the old one.

I would do the following:

mkdir converted
tar cf - in |(cd converted ; tar xf -)
cd converted
find ./ -type f -exec unix2dos "{}" \;

Joe
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