When I send a text file via FTP from windows to unix, I am having conversion issues. <BR>1. If I send the file via ascii, all of the tabs in windows are converting to 8 spaces in unix.<BR>2. If I send ...

Some Unix systems (like Solaris) provide utilities for converting DOS text files to Unix (linefeed) text files and vice versa. The dos2unix and unix2dos utilities will read a file in one format and ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>Can anyone give me a hand with this:<BR><BR>I want to export a unix text file to excel. How can I do it?<BR>As far as I know if the fields in the unix file are separated by commas it ...

In what is probably this century’s greatest advancement in technology, Windows Notepad now supports Unix line endings. This is it, people. Where were you when Kennedy was assassinated? Where were you ...

It's easy to add a few lines of text to files on Linux, but there are tools that make it easier to add many lines. There are a number of ways to add text to files on Linux systems without having to ...

Carriage returns go back a long way – as far back as typewriters on which a mechanism or a lever swung the carriage that held a sheet of paper to the right so that suddenly letters were being typed on ...

A reader recently asked me about me about finding text in context by posing this question: “I work on a solaris system where often I have to view outputs of certain log files. I use ‘grep’ to search ...

https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,83754/description.html (free) adds a new control interface to the Firefox browser that mimics commands from the Unix text ...