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: Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, French, Friulian, Georgian, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmaal, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
• 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

Latest version: 7.5.2 (2024-01-22)

Stable version: 7.5.2 (2024-01-22)

News

dos2unix - text file format converters

Wanted: translators.
If you want to help translating the dos2unix messages into more languages go to the Translation Project.
Translation of UI messages here
Translation of manual here

• DOS
• d2u752b.zip DOS 16 bit version. English
• d2u752pm.zip DOS 32 bit protected mode version. English
• Windows
• dos2unix-7.5.2-win64.zip Windows 64 bit version. English
• dos2unix-7.5.2-win64-nls.zip Windows 64 bit version. International
• dos2unix-7.5.2-win32.zip Windows 32 bit version. English
• dos2unix-7.5.2-win32-nls.zip Windows 32 bit version. International
• OS/2 Warp
• Install EMX version (i686 or pentium4) with command: "yum install dos2unix". Requires EMX 1_5-p4 environment. See here.
• dos2unix-7.5.2-os2-watcom.zip Native OS/2 Warp i386, built with Watcom C. English

Recursive conversion of files

To recursively convert text files in a directory tree, use dos2unix in combination with the 'find' and 'xargs' commands. For instance to convert all .txt files under the current directory type:

find . -name '*.txt' |xargs dos2unix

Windows users can use the following command in a Windows Command Prompt:

for /R %G in (*.txt) do dos2unix "%G"

PowerShell users can use the following command in a Windows PowerShell:

get-childitem -path . -filter '*.txt' -recurse | foreach-object {dos2unix $_.Fullname}

Drag & drop file info

This batch script d2uinfo.bat can be copied to the Desktop. You can drag & drop files into it to get file information about number of line breaks, byte order mark, and text/binary. (Thanks to Alan S. Jones)

@ECHO OFF
ECHO.
call dos2unix -ihp %*
ECHO.
pause

Manual pages SunOS versions

Distributions including this version of dos2unix

Source code libintl DLL

unix2dos - Unix to DOS text file format converter

Since version 5.0 (2010-02-16) is unix2dos included in the dos2unix package. The separate unix2dos package is now obsolete.

Development

Project home page : https://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/dos2unix.html
SourceForge project page : https://sourceforge.net/projects/dos2unix/

Latest development version from Git repository:

git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/dos2unix/dos2unix
Browse the code here

Check the files out as-is (no line break conversion), otherwise tests will fail.

Alternative implementations

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