LF (ASCII 10) only (no CR)

[papori]

Hi,
How i can be sure that lines terminated by LF (ASCII 10) only (no CR)?

thanks,
papori

[jpollard]

That is the default on Linux.

See: http://soft.zoneo.net/Linux/dos_to_unix.php

The referenced program is in the package dos2unix, though it is simple enough from the examples even without the program.

[assen]

Hi,

Many ways - for example, open the file in hex editor - Gnome has one somewhere in the repos, but I'd use Midnight Commander for this (highlight the file, press F3, then F4). Then check what lives at the line's end.

WWell,

[Gareth Jones]

"LF" is the normal Unix/Linux convention, and should be the default with any text editor run in Fedora (unless opening a file which already uses another line ending convention). "CR+LF" is for DOS/Windows, and "CR" alone for Mac OS (< OS X anyway, I'm not sure what OS X does, it being a Unix derivative). Unicode/UTF-8 technically complicate things further, but that's rarely an issue in practise.

Different text editors have their own methods for overriding defaults. For example, in Vim I could type ":set ff=unix" before saving a file I want to convert to LF-only line endings. GEdit also has a drop-down menu in its save dialogue window (see the attached screen-shot).

The terminal commands dos2unix, mac2unix, unix2dos and unix2mac convert existing files. See jpollard's post and link for more information on the dos2unix package.

[RupertPupkin]

You could grep for carriage returns like this:

grep -c $'\r' your_file

If that command returns a number greater than zero then the file contains carriage returns.

You could use cat -v to see the carriage returns (denoted by ^M):