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

Can anyone give me a hand with this: I want to export a unix text file to excel. How can I do it? As far as I know if the fields in the unix file are separated by commas it would make it posible for ...

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 ...

Other than having to switch between “/” and “” when I’m moving from Unix systems to Windows systems, one of the most annoying (and seemingly pointless) differences is the way that these two competing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...