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title: Use Unix line endings in Unix tools
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date: 2018-11-08 00:00:00
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Before you use any Unix tools to process some file, make sure the file only use Unix [line endings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representation).
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Note that many text files you downloaded most probably use Windows line endings.
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To [recap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representation),
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Type | Line ending | Escape sequence
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---|--- | ---
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Windows | CR LF | \r\n
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Unix (including Linux distro, *BSD and macOS) | LF | \n
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Classic Mac OS (i.e. Mac OS 9 or older) | CR | \r
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Unix tools, regardless from Busy/ToyBox, GNU or BSD, only support Unix line endings.
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So, before you use any of them, make sure you convert the file to Unix line endings, especially before `grep -f`.
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Use `dos2unix` to convert from Windows to Unix line endings, e.g.
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```
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# STDIN to STDOUT
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cat input | dos2unix
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# STDIN to FILE
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cat input | dos2unix > output
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# Convert and replace current file
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dos2unix filename
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```
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If your distro includes BusyBox (e.g. Ubuntu), use `busybox dos2unix`. |