Re: Q: Mass Text convert Linux-DOS?

[Erik Steffl]

Jonathan Gift wrote:
...
> I have a great many text files I have to convert from Linux to DOS
> format. I tries recode by hand once but it took hours. There has to be an
> automatic way.
...
> for file in ~/documents; do
>         recode latin1..ibmpc $file
> done

  find ~/documents -type f -exec recode latin1..ibmpc '{}' \;

  see man find

  don't forget to backup before you experiment!

        erik