dos2unix all files in a directory

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dos2unix requires the name of an input and output file so it can be hard to run on a list of files. The following gets around this and will run dos2unix on all files in a directory:

for f in `find * -type f`; do echo "dos2unix $f $f"; done | sh

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Samus_

ughh!!

for f in *; do [[ -f $f ]] && dos2unix "$f" "$f"; done

1) don't generate programs that output lists of files if the shell can give them to you (`find * -type f`)
2) don't "echo" commands to pipe to sh if you can call them directly (echo "dos2unix $f $f" ... | sh)

Posted 2009-02-14 02:40:19

Samus_

...and if you want it to be recursive (like the OP) do:

find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} {} ';'

Posted 2009-02-15 18:30:25

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