looking for utility to convert text files from Mac (& Unix) in abatch process

I'm looking for something similar to this program called "flip" that
will convert the "newline" character in text files, only one that will
allow me to use wildcards to convert a bunch of text files in a batch
process.

I've spent time searching, and found a bunch of Linux commands to do
it, but I'm not using Linux.

Could somebody point me to a utility that can do the job? It shouldn't
be too hard, I used to have a program called "ASCII Helper" on my old
Apple IIGS that could do this, why can't I find anything for Windows?

On 05/05/2011 10:47 PM, SlickRCBD wrote:
I'm looking for something similar to this program called "flip" that
will convert the "newline" character in text files, only one that will
allow me to use wildcards to convert a bunch of text files in a batch
process.

I've spent time searching, and found a bunch of Linux commands to do
it, but I'm not using Linux.

Could somebody point me to a utility that can do the job? It shouldn't
be too hard, I used to have a program called "ASCII Helper" on my old
Apple IIGS that could do this, why can't I find anything for Windows?



http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/unix-co...s-for-windows/

SlickRCBD wrote in news:b8647c9e-5615-47be-b761-
:

I'm looking for something similar to this program called "flip" that
will convert the "newline" character in text files, only one that will
allow me to use wildcards to convert a bunch of text files in a batch
process.

I've spent time searching, and found a bunch of Linux commands to do
it, but I'm not using Linux.

Could somebody point me to a utility that can do the job? It shouldn't
be too hard, I used to have a program called "ASCII Helper" on my old
Apple IIGS that could do this, why can't I find anything for Windows?


Lua. Tiny scripting language. If you get into that you can build your own
tools. It's cross-platform between all major platforms too. OSX, Windows,
BSD, Linux...)

If you're interested, here's a few common functions for quick starting:

function OpenTest(F)
F=io.open(F) if F then return F:close() end
end

function DataLoad(F)
F=assert(io.open(F,"rb")) local D=F:read("*a")
F:close() return D
end

function DataSave(F,D)
F=assert(io.open(F,"wb")) F:write(D) F:close()
end

function TextLine(S,T) --String, Table.
S=string.gsub(S,"\r\n?","\n")
if (string.sub(S,-1)~="\n") then S=S.."\n" end
for X in string.gfind(S,"(.-)\n") do table.insert(T,X) end
return T
end

function TextFile(T,N) --Table, Newline.
return table.concat(T,N)..N
end

Paths to files use forward slashes like URL's and non-Windows OS's.
FileTest() tets for a file existing, able to be opened. Data functions load
and save all files, as binary. So if you want to handle text as lines, do
TextLine(DataLoad()), and save using DataSave(TextFile()). If you go deep you
can do other things like appaend, but this method saves a LOT of hassle most
times.

One nice thing about Lua is the the entire manual can be (and is) written on
a single page of HTML. It's worth the effort. Instead of wondering where to
get something that CAN do, you'll usually be wondering what ths CAN'T do, and
as Lua itself is smaller than most dedicated single-purpose tools, that's
amazing.

Btw, Lua, like UNIX, is case sensitive throughout. It's character matching
and replace methods are second to none, except perhaps Perl's (which I never
learned because Lua is much easier to read and write), so wildcarding
filenames and converting substrings is easy.

I use this to convert Mac newlines to Windows newlines in emails so they work
properly (email needs windows types, hex 0D 0A, both linefeed AND carriage
return, which makes sense if you think about it..)

X=string.gsub(X,"(.)\n",function(S) if S=="\r" then S="" else Y=Y+1 end
return S.."\r\n" end)

(Beware wordwrap).
More correctly, that function might better be built once, outside the
string.sub function, and called repeatedly from inside, if you're using this
on really big tasks, but it works ok for a 12MB text file as it is so I let
it pass.