Cleaning up ASCII Text files

[Bloody Jack Kidd]

often text files provided from DOS / Windows machines, when opened in a Unix/Linux environment, are full of lines ending with ^M.  While this does not hurt anything, it's ugly and annoying esp. if you are editing those files.

the dos2unix / unix2dos utility is designed to clean this up, and it's very easy

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my_unix_host# dos2unix dosfile.txt

done