flip - newline conversion tool
export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin export IFS=$' \t\n' # download & install flip cd ~/Desktop curl -L -O http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/~craig/utility/flip/flip.osx mv ~/Desktop/flip.osx ~/Desktop/flip /usr/bin/sudo /bin/cp -ip ~/Desktop/flip /usr/bin /usr/bin/sudo /usr/sbin/chown root:wheel /usr/bin/flip /usr/bin/sudo /bin/chmod +x /usr/bin/flip ls -l /usr/bin/flip flip flip -t /path/to/file # display current file type flip -u /path/to/file # convert to Unix: "\n" flip -d /path/to/file # convert to MS-DOS/Windows: "\r\n" flip -m /path/to/file # convert to Macintosh (OS 9): "\r" #---------------------------------- # create a test file testfile="${HOME}/Desktop/testfile.txt" function createfile() { testfile="${HOME}/Desktop/testfile.txt" /usr/bin/jot -b 'sample text' 10 | /bin/cat -n > "$testfile" # append a line with a '\r\n' line separator printf "%s\r\n\r\n\r\r\n" "sample text" >> "$testfile" # append a last line without a terminating '\n' printf "%s" "sample text" >> "$testfile" return 0 } function odcfile() { /usr/bin/od -A n -c < "$@" | /usr/bin/sed -E -e 's/^[[:space:]]{11}//' \ -e s/[[:space:]]{4}/$'\001'/g \ -e 's/[[:space:]]+//g' | \ /usr/bin/tr -d '\n' | /usr/bin/tr '\001' ' ' | \ /usr/bin/sed -e s/\\\\n/$'\\\\\\n\\\n'/g return 0 } createfile odcfile "$testfile" flip -t "$testfile" # display current file type flip -d "$testfile" # convert to MS-DOS/Windows: "\r\n" flip -t "$testfile" odcfile "$testfile" flip -m "$testfile" # convert to Macintosh (OS 9): "\r" flip -t "$testfile" odcfile "$testfile" flip -u "$testfile" # convert to Unix: "\n" flip -t "$testfile" odcfile "$testfile"