dos2unix - DOS/Mac to Unix and vice versa text file format converter.
FILE LIST
README.txt : This file.
INSTALL.txt : How to build and install.
COPYING.txt : distribution license.
NEWS.txt : Basic change log for users.
ChangeLog.txt : Detailed change log for programmers.
TODO.txt : Things to do.
BUGS.txt : Known bugs and instructions on reporting new ones.
DEVEL.txt : Information about dos2unix' implementation choices.
man/man1/dos2unix.txt : Dos2unix manual, text format.
man/man1/dos2unix.htm : Dos2unix manual, HTML format.
PROJECT HOME PAGE
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html
HISTORY
This is an update of Benjamin Lin's implementations of dos2unix and
unix2dos. Benjamin Lin's implementations of dos2unix and unix2dos were
distributed via SunSITE.unc.edu (later MetaLab.unc.edu, now ibiblio)
and became part of several Linux distributions such as RedHat, Suse,
Gentoo, and others. This update includes all RedHat patches and fixes
several other problems. Internationalization has been added and ports
to DOS, Windows, Cygwin and OS/2 Warp have been made.
These implementations of dos2unix and unix2dos have been modelled after
dos2unix/unix2dos under SunOS/Solaris. The first versions were made by
John Birchfield in 1989, and in 1995 rewritten from scratch by Benjamin
Lin. Mac to Unix conversion was added by Bernd Johannes Wuebben in
1998, Unix to Mac conversion by Erwin Waterlander in 2010.
In 2010 the two separate dos2unix and unix2dos packages have been
bundled into a single dos2unix package (version 5.0). Support for
Unicode UTF-16 was added in 2012 (version 6.0). Version 7.0, in 2014,
was a major code cleanup and added a test suite.
Features
* Native language support.
* Automatically skips binary and non-regular files.
* In-place, paired, or stdio mode conversion.
* Keep original file dates option.
* 7-bit and iso conversion modes like SunOS dos2unix.
* Conversion of Unicode UTF-16 files.
* Handles Unicode Byte Order Mark (BOM).
* Display file information.
* Secure.
AUTHORS
Erwin Waterlander version 3.2 - 7.4.0 2009-2017
Christian Wurll version 3.1 1998
Bernd Johannes Wuebben version 3.0 1998
Benjamin Lin version 1.1 - 2.3 1994-1995
John Birchfield version 1.0 1989
TRANSLATORS
Since version 6.0.5 dos2unix is part of the Translation Project (TP).
All translations go via the Translation Project.
Translation of the messages.
See http://translationproject.org/domain/dos2unix.html
Brazilian Portuguese Enrico Nicoletto Version 6.0.5
Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira Version 6.0.6 - 7.2
Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle Version 7.3.2 - 7.4.0
Chinese (simplified) Tianze Wang Version 7.3.1 - 7.4.0
Chinese (traditional) mail6543210 Version 6.0.5
Danish Thomas Pryds Version 6.0.5 - 6.0.6
Danish Joe Hansen Version 7.2.3 - 7.3.4
Dutch Erwin Waterlander Version 4.0 - 6.0.4
Dutch Benno Schulenberg Version 6.0.5 - 7.3.4
Esperanto Rugxulo Version 5.1 - 6.0.4
Esperanto Benno Schulenberg Version 6.0.5 - 7.3
French Frédéric Marchal Version 6.0.5 - 7.4.0
German Philipp Thomas Version 5.0 - 6.0.3, 7.0,
7.2.2 - 7.3.4
German Lars Wendler Version 6.0.4
German Mario Blättermann Version 6.0.6, 7.1 - 7.2
Hungarian Balázs Úr Version 6.0.5 - 7.2.3
Hungarian Gabor Kelemen Version 7.3.4
Japanese Yasuaki Taniguchi Version 7.1.1
Japanese Takeshi Hamasaki Version 7.3.4
Norwegian Bokmaal Åka Sikrom Version 6.0.6 - 7.4.0
Polish Jakub Bogusz Version 6.0.5 - 7.4.0
Russian Андрей Углик (Andrei Uhlik) Version 6.0.4
Russian Yuri Kozlov Version 6.0.6 - 7.4.0
Serbian Мирослав Николић Version 6.0.5 - 7.3.4
Spanish Julio A. Freyre-Gonzalez Version 5.3.1 - 6.0.4
Spanish Enrique Lazcorreta Puigmartí Version 6.0.6 - 7.3.1
Swedish Sebastian Rasmussen Version 7.3.2 - 7.4.0
Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan Version 6.0.5 - 7.3.4
Vietnamese Trần Ngọc Quân Version 6.0.5 - 7.4.0
Translation of the manual.
See http://translationproject.org/domain/dos2unix-man.html
Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Ferreira Version 6.0.5 - 7.2
Brazilian Portuguese Rafael Fontenelle Version 7.3.2 - 7.4.0
Chinese (simplified) Tianze Wang Version 7.3.1 - 7.4.0
Dutch Erwin Waterlander Version 5.1.1 - 6.0.4
Dutch Benno Schulenberg Version 6.0.5 - 7.3.3
French Frédéric Marchal Version 6.0.5 - 7.4.0
German Mario Blättermann Version 6.0.5 - 7.4.0
Polish Jakub Bogusz Version 6.0.5 - 7.4.0
Spanish Julio A. Freyre-Gonzalez Version 5.3.1 - 6.0.4
Spanish Enrique Lazcorreta Puigmartí Version 6.0.6 - 7.2.1
Swedish Sebastian Rasmussen Version 7.3.2 - 7.4.0
Ukrainian Yuri Chornoivan Version 6.0.5 - 7.3.5
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Rugxulo query_con_codepage(), code page detection in DOS.
Rugxulo DJGPP stubs for mac2unix and unix2mac.
Jari Aalto Improvements man page.
Jari Aalto Improvements Makefile.
Ben Pfaff Treat form feeds as valid text.
Marc Gianzero Darwin OS port.
Elbert Pol OS/2 port.
Tim Waugh Various patches.
Mike Harris Man page update.
Bernard RosenKraenzer segfault patch.
Tim Powers mkstemp patch.
Miloslav Trmac safeconv patch.
Charles Wilson Follow symbolic links.
Charles Wilson Makefile and code cleanup for Cygwin.
Christopher Williams Maintain file ownership in old file mode.
Steven H. Levine Support wildcard expansion on OS/2.
Steve Hay Support wildcard expansion on win64.
Michael Schindler Fixed compiler warning.
Somsak Pattanaprateep Print line number when binary symbol is found.
Justin Lecher Makefile improvement.
F.J. Brandelik Reported problems when win32 version processes
huge files on a network drive.
Benno Schulenberg Cleaning up the UI messages.
Mario Blättermann Generate pod files from gettext po files with po4a.
Daniel Macks Reported dependency on GNU sed.
Alan S. Jones Reported bug in UTF-16 conversion by mac2unix.
Alan S. Jones Idea for an info option, to list file statistics
about line breaks and byte order marks.
Gary Johnson Idea for an info option, to list only files which have
DOS line breaks, or only files with Unix line breaks.
Helmut Karlowski Makefile and PrintVersion() update for freeMiNT.
Tom Christiansen Fix for wrong title in HTML manuals.
Armin Müller Fixed typo in if condition in write_bom().
Philip Rowlands Reported that dos2unix was not checking for file I/O
errors while reading the input.
Baruch Siach Fix compilation error "'wchar_t' undeclared"
when Unicode support is disabled.
Ulf-Dietrich Braumann Reported that the -iso option was misinterpreted
as a corrupted -i option.
Hans Passant Correct redirection of unicode UTF-16 screen output.
anonymous Don't install international man pages when NLS
is disabled.
Alan S. Jones New flags h (print header) and p (show file names
without path) for option -i, --info
Beep6581 Improved example for recursive conversion.
FINDUTILS
Windows users who are looking for the Unix 'find' and 'xargs' commands
can find them in the findutils package for Windows at the ezwinports
project page at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/
A DOS version of the findutils package can be obtained from the DJGPP
project (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/) at
ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/
CONTACT INFORMATION
Project home page : http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html
SourceForge project page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/dos2unix/
Erwin Waterlander
waterlan@xs4all.nl
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/
If you need support you can email me directly or make a ticket on the
SourceForge project page. Help in any form is appreciated. A problem
report, a fix, or just a remark.