Recursive convert dos newlines to unix ones with dos2unix

Posted by Open Source Hacker on July 26, 2005

$ find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;

Remember to install dos2unix first

8 Comments.

Bangon Kali May 10, 2011 at 15:32

This is how you avoid converting every file. You can use regular expressions to filter the files you wish to convert. My example is what i used to convert all of my PHP files to Unix.

find . -name \*.php -exec /usr/bin/dos2unix ‘{}’ \;

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Justin March 24, 2010 at 9:42

I found this worked

$ find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} {} \;

Will convert the original file, keep the name

the

$ find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;

just displays the file in unix format in solaris
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Abhiram November 21, 2007 at 10:41

Didn’t really work very well for me. I used the following command instead:

$ dos2unix `find ./ -type f`

(note that it’s backtick (`) and not single quote (‘))
renish ladani October 22, 2007 at 10:41

very useful and perfect command, i tried on RHEL 4 and it works well, save my lots of time

Thanks!!!!!!!!!
Abbath October 1, 2007 at 10:04

Nice! u save my life!
PePe Lopez August 30, 2007 at 23:40

Wow!! That was very useful, thanx a lot!!!!!!!!!!!
R Truscott July 27, 2006 at 3:28

That was really handy. Thanks!