How can I run dos2unix on an entire directory

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I have to convert an entire directory using dos2unix  I am not able to figure out how to do this

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I have had the same problem and thanks to the posts here I have solved it. I knew that I have around a hundred files and I needed to run it for *.js files only. find . -type f -name '*.js' -print0 | xargs -0 dos2unix

Thank you all for your help.

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I ve googled this like a million times  so my solution is to just put this bash function in your environment    bashrc or  profile or whatever  dos2unixd       find  1 -type f -print0   xargs -0 dos2unix     Usage    dos2unixd   somepath  This way you still have the original command dos2unix and it s easy to remember this one dos2unixd

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A common use case appears to be to standardize line endings for all files committed to a Git repository   git ls-files   xargs dos2unix   Keep in mind that certain files  e g    sln    bat  etc are only used on Windows operating systems and should keep the CRLF ending   git ls-files    sln     bat    xargs unix2dos   If necessary  use  gitattributes

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As I happened to be poorly satisfied by dos2unix  I rolled out my own simple utility  Apart of a few advantages in speed and predictability  the syntax is also a bit simpler     endlines unix     And if you want it to go down into subdirectories  skipping hidden dirs and non-text files     endlines unix -r     endlines is available here https   github com mdolidon endlines

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It s probably best to skip hidden files and folders  such as  git  So instead of using find  if your bash version is recent enough or if you re using zsh  just do   dos2unix      Note that for Bash  this will require   shopt -s globstar       but this is a useful enough feature that you should honestly just put it in your  bashrc anyway   If you don t want to skip hidden files and folders  but you still don t want to mess with find  and I wouldn t blame you   you can provide a second recursive-glob argument to match only hidden entries   dos2unix            Note that in both cases  the glob will expand to include directories  so you will see the following warning  potentially many times over   Skipping  lt dir gt   not a regular file

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If it s a large directory you may want to consider running with multiple processors   find   -type f -print0   xargs -0 -n 1 -P 4 dos2unix    This will pass 1 file at a time  and use 4 processors

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For any Solaris users  am using 5 10  may apply to newer versions too  as well as other unix systems    dos2unix doesn t default to overwriting the file  it will just print the updated version to stdout  so you will have to specify the source and target  i e  the same name twice   find   -type f -exec dos2unix

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find   -type f -print0   xargs -0 dos2unix  Will recursively find all files inside current directory and call for these files dos2unix command

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I think the simplest way is   dos2unix   find   -type f

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for FILE in  var www html files   do   usr bin dos2unix FILE done

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If there is no sub-directory  you can also take  ls   xargs -I    dos2unix

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