Not able to use dos2unix on UNIX machine

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mradul picture mradul · Sep 16, 2015 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

I try to use dos2unix command on unix machine but it gives me error like --

 data_load]$ dos2unix a.csv a.csv
-bash: dos2unix: command not found

Then i use ---

data_load]$ yum search dos2unix
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dos2unix.x86_64 : Text file format converter

Is there any way that i can use it and i can not log in as ROOT

Answer

Basile Starynkevitch picture Basile Starynkevitch · Sep 16, 2015

You could ask your sysadmin to install dos2unix. Apparently he didn't install it yet.

You might compile it from its source code. If it has a configure script (from autoconf) you might pass a --prefix=$HOME/soft argument to that script and later add $HOME/soft/bin/ to your $PATH.

Perhaps using tr(1) might be enough...

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