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dos2unix(1)			  2014-01-01			   dos2unix(1)

NAME
       dos2unix - DOS/Mac to Unix and vice versa text file format converter

SYNOPSIS
	   dos2unix [options] [FILE ...] [-n INFILE OUTFILE ...]
	   unix2dos [options] [FILE ...] [-n INFILE OUTFILE ...]

DESCRIPTION
       The Dos2unix package includes utilities "dos2unix" and "unix2dos" to
       convert plain text files in DOS or Mac format to Unix format and vice
       versa.

       In DOS/Windows text files a line break, also known as newline, is a
       combination of two characters: a Carriage Return (CR) followed by a
       Line Feed (LF). In Unix text files a line break is a single character:
       the Line Feed (LF). In Mac text files, prior to Mac OS X, a line break
       was single Carriage Return (CR) character. Nowadays Mac OS uses Unix
       style (LF) line breaks.

       Besides line breaks Dos2unix can also convert the encoding of files. A
       few DOS code pages can be converted to Unix Latin-1. And Windows
       Unicode (UTF-16) files can be converted to Unix Unicode (UTF-8) files.

       Binary files are automatically skipped, unless conversion is forced.

       Non-regular files, such as directories and FIFOs, are automatically
       skipped.

       Symbolic links and their targets are by default kept untouched.
       Symbolic links can optionally be replaced, or the output can be written
       to the symbolic link target.  Symbolic links on Windows are not
       supported. Windows symbolic links always replaced, keeping the targets
       unchanged.

       Dos2unix was modelled after dos2unix under SunOS/Solaris and has
       similar conversion modes.

OPTIONS
       --  Treat all following options as file names. Use this option if you
	   want to convert files whose names start with a dash. For instance
	   to convert a file named "-foo", you can use this command:

	       dos2unix -- -foo

	   Or in new file mode:

	       dos2unix -n -- -foo out.txt

       -ascii
	   Convert only line breaks. This is the default conversion mode.

       -iso
	   Conversion between DOS and ISO-8859-1 character set. See also
	   section CONVERSION MODES.

       -1252
	   Use Windows code page 1252 (Western European).

       -437
	   Use DOS code page 437 (US). This is the default code page used for
	   ISO conversion.

       -850
	   Use DOS code page 850 (Western European).

       -860
	   Use DOS code page 860 (Portuguese).

       -863
	   Use DOS code page 863 (French Canadian).

       -865
	   Use DOS code page 865 (Nordic).

       -7  Convert 8 bit characters to 7 bit space.

       -c, --convmode CONVMODE
	   Set conversion mode. Where CONVMODE is one of: ascii, 7bit, iso,
	   mac with ascii being the default.

       -f, --force
	   Force conversion of binary files.

       -h, --help
	   Display help and exit.

       -k, --keepdate
	   Keep the date stamp of output file same as input file.

       -L, --license
	   Display program's license.

       -l, --newline
	   Add additional newline.

	   dos2unix: Only DOS line breaks are changed to two Unix line breaks.
	   In Mac mode only Mac line breaks are changed to two Unix line
	   breaks.

	   unix2dos: Only Unix line breaks are changed to two DOS line breaks.
	   In Mac mode Unix line breaks are changed to two Mac line breaks.

       -m, --add-bom
	   Write an UTF-8 Byte Order Mark in the output file. Never use this
	   option when the output encoding is other than UTF-8. See also
	   section UNICODE.

       -n, --newfile INFILE OUTFILE ...
	   New file mode. Convert file INFILE and write output to file
	   OUTFILE.  File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names
	   should not be used or you will lose your files.

	   The person who starts the conversion in new file (paired) mode will
	   be the owner of the converted file. The read/write permissions of
	   the new file will be the permissions of the original file minus the
	   umask(1) of the person who runs the conversion.

       -o, --oldfile FILE ...
	   Old file mode. Convert file FILE and overwrite output to it. The
	   program defaults to run in this mode. Wildcard names may be used.

	   In old file (in-place) mode the converted file gets the same owner,
	   group, and read/write permissions as the original file. Also when
	   the file is converted by another user who has write permissions on
	   the file (e.g. user root).  The conversion will be aborted when it
	   is not possible to preserve the original values.  Change of owner
	   could mean that the original owner is not able to read the file any
	   more. Change of group could be a security risk, the file could be
	   made readable for persons for whom it is not intended.
	   Preservation of owner, group, and read/write permissions is only
	   supported on Unix.

       -q, --quiet
	   Quiet mode. Suppress all warnings and messages. The return value is
	   zero.  Except when wrong command-line options are used.

       -s, --safe
	   Skip binary files (default).

       -ul, --assume-utf16le
	   Assume that the input file format is UTF-16LE.

	   When there is a Byte Order Mark in the input file the BOM has
	   priority over this option.

	   When you made a wrong assumption (the input file was not in
	   UTF-16LE format) and the conversion succeeded, you will get an
	   UTF-8 output file with wrong text.  You can undo the wrong
	   conversion with iconv(1) by converting the UTF-8 output file back
	   to UTF-16LE. This will bring back the original file.

	   The assumption of UTF-16LE works as a conversion mode. By switching
	   to the default ascii mode the UTF-16LE assumption is turned off.

       -ub, --assume-utf16be
	   Assume that the input file format is UTF-16BE.

	   This option works the same as option "-ul".

       -F, --follow-symlink
	   Follow symbolic links and convert the targets.

       -R, --replace-symlink
	   Replace symbolic links with converted files (original target files
	   remain unchanged).

       -S, --skip-symlink
	   Keep symbolic links and targets unchanged (default).

       -V, --version
	   Display version information and exit.

MAC MODE
       In normal mode line breaks are converted from DOS to Unix and vice
       versa.  Mac line breaks are not converted.

       In Mac mode line breaks are converted from Mac to Unix and vice versa.
       DOS line breaks are not changed.

       To run in Mac mode use the command-line option "-c mac" or use the
       commands "mac2unix" or "unix2mac".

CONVERSION MODES
       Conversion modes ascii, 7bit, and iso are similar to those of
       dos2unix/unix2dos under SunOS/Solaris.

       ascii
	   In mode "ascii" only line breaks are converted. This is the default
	   conversion mode.

	   Although the name of this mode is ASCII, which is a 7 bit standard,
	   the actual mode is 8 bit. Use always this mode when converting
	   Unicode UTF-8 files.

       7bit
	   In this mode all 8 bit non-ASCII characters (with values from 128
	   to 255) are converted to a 7 bit space.

       iso Characters are converted between a DOS character set (code page)
	   and ISO character set ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) on Unix. DOS characters
	   without ISO-8859-1 equivalent, for which conversion is not
	   possible, are converted to a dot. The same counts for ISO-8859-1
	   characters without DOS counterpart.

	   When only option "-iso" is used dos2unix will try to determine the
	   active code page. When this is not possible dos2unix will use
	   default code page CP437, which is mainly used in the USA.  To force
	   a specific code page use options "-437" (US), "-850" (Western
	   European), "-860" (Portuguese), "-863" (French Canadian), or "-865"
	   (Nordic).  Windows code page CP1252 (Western European) is also
	   supported with option "-1252". For other code pages use dos2unix in
	   combination with iconv(1).  Iconv can convert between a long list
	   of character encodings.

	   Never use ISO converion on Unicode text files. It will corrupt
	   UTF-8 encoded files.

	   Some examples:

	   Convert from DOS default code page to Unix Latin-1

	       dos2unix -iso -n in.txt out.txt

	   Convert from DOS CP850 to Unix Latin-1

	       dos2unix -850 -n in.txt out.txt

	   Convert from Windows CP1252 to Unix Latin-1

	       dos2unix -1252 -n in.txt out.txt

	   Convert from Windows CP1252 to Unix UTF-8 (Unicode)

	       iconv -f CP1252 -t UTF-8 in.txt | dos2unix > out.txt

	   Convert from Unix Latin-1 to DOS default code page.

	       unix2dos -iso -n in.txt out.txt

	   Convert from Unix Latin-1 to DOS CP850

	       unix2dos -850 -n in.txt out.txt

	   Convert from Unix Latin-1 to Windows CP1252

	       unix2dos -1252 -n in.txt out.txt

	   Convert from Unix UTF-8 (Unicode) to Windows CP1252

	       unix2dos < in.txt | iconv -f UTF-8 -t CP1252 > out.txt

	   See also <http://czyborra.com/charsets/codepages.html> and
	   <http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html>.

UNICODE
   Encodings
       There exist different Unicode encodings. On Unix and Linux Unicode
       files are typically encoded in UTF-8 encoding. On Windows Unicode text
       files can be encoded in UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-16 big endian, but are
       mostly encoded in UTF-16 format.

   Conversion
       Unicode text files can have DOS, Unix or Mac line breaks, like regular
       text files.

       All versions of dos2unix and unix2dos can convert UTF-8 encoded files,
       because UTF-8 was designed for backward compatiblity with ASCII.

       Dos2unix and unix2dos with Unicode UTF-16 support, can read little and
       big endian UTF-16 encoded text files. To see if dos2unix was built with
       UTF-16 support type "dos2unix -V".

       The Windows versions of dos2unix and unix2dos convert UTF-16 encoded
       files always to UTF-8 encoded files. Unix versions of dos2unix/unix2dos
       convert UTF-16 encoded files to the locale character encoding when it
       is set to UTF-8.	 Use the locale(1) command to find out what the locale
       character encoding is.

       Because UTF-8 formatted text files are well supported on both Windows
       and Unix, dos2unix and unix2dos have no option to write UTF-16 files.
       All UTF-16 characters can be encoded in UTF-8. Conversion from UTF-16
       to UTF-8 is without loss. UTF-16 files will be skipped on Unix when the
       locale character encoding is not UTF-8, to prevent accidental loss of
       text. When an UTF-16 to UTF-8 conversion error occurs, for instance
       when the UTF-16 input file contains an error, the file will be skipped.

       ISO and 7-bit mode conversion do not work on UTF-16 files.

   Byte Order Mark
       On Windows Unicode text files typically have a Byte Order Mark (BOM),
       because many Windows programs (including Notepad) add BOMs by default.
       See also <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark>.

       On Unix Unicode files typically don't have a BOM. It is assumed that
       text files are encoded in the locale character encoding.

       Dos2unix can only detect if a file is in UTF-16 format if the file has
       a BOM.  When an UTF-16 file doesn't have a BOM, dos2unix will see the
       file as a binary file.

       Use option "-ul" or "-ub" to convert an UTF-16 file without BOM.

       Dos2unix never writes a BOM in the output file, unless you use option
       "-m".

       Unix2dos writes a BOM in the output file when the input file has a BOM,
       or when option "-m" is used.

   Unicode examples
       Convert from Windows UTF-16 (with BOM) to Unix UTF-8

	   dos2unix -n in.txt out.txt

       Convert from Windows UTF-16LE (without BOM) to Unix UTF-8

	   dos2unix -ul -n in.txt out.txt

       Convert from Unix UTF-8 to Windows UTF-8 with BOM

	   unix2dos -m -n in.txt out.txt

       Convert from Unix UTF-8 to Windows UTF-16

	   unix2dos < in.txt | iconv -f UTF-8 -t UTF-16 > out.txt

EXAMPLES
       Read input from 'stdin' and write output to 'stdout'.

	   dos2unix
	   dos2unix -l -c mac

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert and replace b.txt.

	   dos2unix a.txt b.txt
	   dos2unix -o a.txt b.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ascii conversion mode.

	   dos2unix a.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt in ascii conversion mode.  Convert and
       replace b.txt in 7bit conversion mode.

	   dos2unix a.txt -c 7bit b.txt
	   dos2unix -c ascii a.txt -c 7bit b.txt
	   dos2unix -ascii a.txt -7 b.txt

       Convert a.txt from Mac to Unix format.

	   dos2unix -c mac a.txt
	   mac2unix a.txt

       Convert a.txt from Unix to Mac format.

	   unix2dos -c mac a.txt
	   unix2mac a.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt while keeping original date stamp.

	   dos2unix -k a.txt
	   dos2unix -k -o a.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt.

	   dos2unix -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert a.txt and write to e.txt, keep date stamp of e.txt same as
       a.txt.

	   dos2unix -k -n a.txt e.txt

       Convert and replace a.txt. Convert b.txt and write to e.txt.

	   dos2unix a.txt -n b.txt e.txt
	   dos2unix -o a.txt -n b.txt e.txt

       Convert c.txt and write to e.txt. Convert and replace a.txt.  Convert
       and replace b.txt. Convert d.txt and write to f.txt.

	   dos2unix -n c.txt e.txt -o a.txt b.txt -n d.txt f.txt

RECURSIVE CONVERSION
       Use dos2unix in combination with the find(1) and xargs(1) commands to
       recursively convert text files in a directory tree structure. For
       instance to convert all .txt files in the directory tree under the
       current directory type:

	   find . -name *.txt |xargs dos2unix

LOCALIZATION
       LANG
	   The primary language is selected with the environment variable
	   LANG. The LANG variable consists out of several parts. The first
	   part is in small letters the language code. The second is optional
	   and is the country code in capital letters, preceded with an
	   underscore. There is also an optional third part: character
	   encoding, preceded with a dot. A few examples for POSIX standard
	   type shells:

	       export LANG=nl		    Dutch
	       export LANG=nl_NL	    Dutch, The Netherlands
	       export LANG=nl_BE	    Dutch, Belgium
	       export LANG=es_ES	    Spanish, Spain
	       export LANG=es_MX	    Spanish, Mexico
	       export LANG=en_US.iso88591   English, USA, Latin-1 encoding
	       export LANG=en_GB.UTF-8	    English, UK, UTF-8 encoding

	   For a complete list of language and country codes see the gettext
	   manual:
	   http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Language-Codes
	   <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Language-
	   Codes>

	   On Unix systems you can use to command locale(1) to get locale
	   specific information.

       LANGUAGE
	   With the LANGUAGE environment variable you can specify a priority
	   list of languages, separated by colons. Dos2unix gives preference
	   to LANGUAGE over LANG.  For instance, first Dutch and then German:
	   "LANGUAGE=nl:de". You have to first enable localization, by setting
	   LANG (or LC_ALL) to a value other than "C", before you can use a
	   language priority list through the LANGUAGE variable. See also the
	   gettext manual:
	   http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#The-LANGUAGE-variable
	   <http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#The-
	   LANGUAGE-variable>

	   If you select a language which is not available you will get the
	   standard English messages.

       DOS2UNIX_LOCALEDIR
	   With the environment variable DOS2UNIX_LOCALEDIR the LOCALEDIR set
	   during compilation can be overruled. LOCALEDIR is used to find the
	   language files. The GNU default value is "/usr/local/share/locale".
	   Option --version will display the LOCALEDIR that is used.

	   Example (POSIX shell):

	       export DOS2UNIX_LOCALEDIR=$HOME/share/locale

RETURN VALUE
       On success, zero is returned.  When a system error occurs the last
       system error will be returned. For other errors 1 is returned.

       The return value is always zero in quiet mode, except when wrong
       command-line options are used.

STANDARDS
       <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_file>

       <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_return>

       <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline>

       <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode>

AUTHORS
       Benjamin Lin - <blin@socs.uts.edu.au> Bernd Johannes Wuebben (mac2unix
       mode) - <wuebben@kde.org>, Christian Wurll (add extra newline) -
       <wurll@ira.uka.de>, Erwin Waterlander - <waterlan@xs4all.nl>
       (Maintainer)

       Project page: <http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html>

       SourceForge page: <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dos2unix/>

       Freecode: <http://freecode.com/projects/dos2unix>

SEE ALSO
       file(1) find(1) iconv(1) locale(1) xargs(1)

dos2unix			  2013-07-27			   dos2unix(1)
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