writing Unix files on Windows

[Roedy Green]

On Windows, println uses \r\n line endings.

What is the canonical way to write files with \n line endings on
Windows?

[Fred Kleinschmidt]

On Windows, println uses \r\n line endings. What is the canonical way to write files with \n line endings on Windows? -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. ~ Robert R. Coveyou (born: 1915 died: 1996-02-19 at age: 80)

Look at system property line.separator

[Roedy Green]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 07:51:27 -0800 (PST), Fred Kleinschmidt

Post by Fred Kleinschmidt
Look at system property line.separator

see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/lineseparator.html

The catch with setting it is Oracle says you should not.

[Knute Johnson]

Post by Roedy Green
On Windows, println uses \r\n line endings.
What is the canonical way to write files with \n line endings on
Windows?

That is always a problem when moving a text file from Windows to Unix.
There is a Unix utility for conversion, dos2unix and there might be the
reverse I can't remember.

knute...

[Steve W. Jackson]

Post by Knute Johnson

Post by Roedy Green
On Windows, println uses \r\n line endings.
What is the canonical way to write files with \n line endings on
Windows?

That is always a problem when moving a text file from Windows to Unix.
There is a Unix utility for conversion, dos2unix and there might be the
reverse I can't remember.
knute...

On Unix systems, there will likely be both "dos2unix" and "unix2dos"
utility programs available.

[John B. Matthews]

Post by Steve W. Jackson

Post by Knute Johnson

Post by Roedy Green
On Windows, println uses \r\n line endings.
What is the canonical way to write files with \n line endings on
Windows?

That is always a problem when moving a text file from Windows to
Unix. There is a Unix utility for conversion, dos2unix and there
might be the reverse I can't remember.

On Unix systems, there will likely be both "dos2unix" and "unix2dos"
utility programs available.

If not, tr is an alternative.

$ tr -d '\r' < dos.txt > new.txt

[Roedy Green]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:00:52 -0600, "Steve W. Jackson"

Post by Steve W. Jackson
On Unix systems, there will likely be both "dos2unix" and "unix2dos"
utility programs available.

It is a pretty easy utility to write. I use Unix conventions on
Windows files whose ultimate destination is the web. I though there
may be some elegant way to produce them directly.