[vfunct]

OK So I have a whole directory hierarchy of code that's in DOS ascii format (their newlines) and I need to translate it to Unix newline format. What would be the best way to do this? Is there a script in OS-X that would do all that for me? I need to translate it into Unix ascii insead of Mac ascii, as it's C++ code for GCC.

[darkcore]

it appears someone has written a few shell scripts that do this sort of thing:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/darw.../msg00015.html

[Mithras]

Hmmm, let me try!
First cd to the appropriate folder. Then do

Code:
find . -type f -print -exec perl -pi.bak -e 's/\015\012?/\n/g' {} \;

This works as long as *every* file is a text file that needs fixing. It could munge up binary files, so if you have some of those, specify the filename suffix as so:

Code:
find . ( -type f ) -and ( -name '*.cpp' -or -name '*.txt' ) -print -exec perl -pi.bak -e 's/\015\012?/\n/g' {} \;