On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Erik Steffl wrote:
> 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
You can also recursively *zip* into directories using the the zip LF CR
conversion options, then unzip. This is not really what zip is for and it is
a problem if you are short on disk disk space but it a way to do what
you want.
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