I have this script
#!/bin/sh
for i in `ls -R`
do
echo "Changing $i"
fromdos $i
done
I want to remove "^M" charcaters from many files which are in more subdirectories. I got this:
fromdos: Unable to access file
Is there somethig i'm missing?
Thanks in advance.
I guess you don't need a for loop.
Here is a quick panorama of solutions for files with extension ".ext" (such commands shall be somehow restrictive)
note : ^M is obtained with CTRL-V" + "CTRL-M"
# PORTABLE SOLUTION
find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -exec sed -i -e 's/^M$//' {} \;
# GNU-sed
find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -exec sed -i -e "s/\x0D$//g" {} \;
# SED with more recent nux
find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -exec sed -i -e "s/\r$//g" {} \;
# DOS2UNIX
find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -print0 | while read -r -d "$(printf "\000")" -r path; do dos2unix $path $path"_new"; done
# AWK
find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -print0 | while read -r -d "$(printf "\000")" -r path; do awk '{ sub("\r$", ""); print }' $path > $path"_new"; done
# TR
find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -print0 | while read -r -d "$(printf "\000")" -r path; do cat $path | tr -d '\r' > $path"_new"; done
# PERL
find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -exec perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' {} \;
ls -R
lists everything, including directories. So you're telling fromdos
to act on actual directories is some cases.
Try something like this:
find . -type f -exec fromdos {} \;