SPUG: Checking for ASCII files

[James Moore]

Most UNIX flavors today already have a utility that will convert 
MSDOS-format files to UNIX.  See if your system has dos2unix.  (Not that 
I want to discourage using perl, but don't reinvent the wheel if you 
don't have to.)

Something like:

find /where/you/put/files -exec file {} \; | grep text | sed -e 
"s/:.*//" | xargs dos2unix

may solve your problem without needing to write code.

James Moore
james at banshee.com

Lorraine Johnson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> We're writing a Unix Perl script to
> navigate the directories and convert the Windows newlines to Unix newlines.
> We know all the pieces but one: What is the best way to determine if a file
> is ASCII or non-ASCII?



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