Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Jeu 22 janvier 2009 00:53, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
>
>> This discussion has ranged far afield of the original post.
>>
>> So, does anyone know of a reason to keep the dos2unix warning?
> Is there anything dos2unix does which can not be done by standard
> tools like sed?
>
> for txt in *.txt ; do
> iconv -f WINDOWS-1252 -t UTF-8 -o $txt.1 $txt
> fold -s $txt.1 > $txt.2
> sed -i 's/\r//' $txt.2
> touch -r $txt $txt.2
> mv $txt.2 $txt
> rm $txt.1
> done
>
I don't know of any.
The whole point is to replace those 8 confusing lines of scripting with
a simple call. It makes the spec file easier to read.
But we shouldn't be telling people they must not
use dos2unix (with a proper BuildRequires) if there's no actual problem.
+1