How to change file line endings between Mac/Dos/Unix?
Open the file, then do “Alt+x set-buffer-file-coding-system” (Ctrl+x Enter f). Give it a value of mac, dos, unix. Then, when you save the file, it'll be saved with the proper encoding for newlines.
alternatively
ctl-x return f then dos
Note: Unixes (including Linuxes and Mac OS X) uses LF (ascii 10; line feed) for newline. Mac OS Classic uses CR (ascii 13; carriage return) for newline. (Mac OS X prefers LF but accepts CR too) Windows uses CR followed by LF ("\r\n") for its newline char. See wikipedia newline for detail.
To do it batch on a list of files, use the following lisp code:
(defun to-unix-eol (fpath)
"Change file's line ending to unix convention."
(let (mybuffer)
(setq mybuffer (find-file fpath))
(set-buffer-file-coding-system 'unix) ; or 'mac or 'dos
(save-buffer)
(kill-buffer mybuffer)
)
)
(mapc 'to-unix-eol
(list
"~/whatever/myfile1"
"~/whatever/myfile2"
"~/whatever/myfile3"
; ...
)
)
If you want the function to work on marked files in dired, then use the following code:
(defun dired-2unix-marked-files ()
"Change to unix line ending for marked (or next arg) files."
(interactive)
(mapc 'to-unix-eol (dired-get-marked-files))
)
Select the code and do “Alt+x eval-region”, then “Alt+x dired”, then press “m” to mark the files you want, then do “Alt+x dired-dos2unix-marked-files”.
hat tip:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_adv_tips.html
