SUMMARY: unix2dos deletes files

From: Wolfgang Leideck (leideck@pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de)
Date: Wed Oct 05 1994 - 10:49:51 CDT


Hello.
Sorry for this silly question. I've understood this lesson in using
shell.
Well, there was a missunderstanding in shell metacharacters what most
of you have suggested. Also, many thanks for your shell scripts.

Here is the original question:

> Hello.
>
> A user wanted to convert unix ascii files to dos ascii.
> He used following command
> > dos2unix *.tex tmp/*.tex
> The result was that all original files are destroyed and nothing
> was converted. This happend under Solaris2.3 on Sun SPARC ELC with
> the patches from the maintenance supplement 1 cd.
>
> Is there a patch that would fix this behavior?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Wolfgang

Wolfgang

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Wolfgang Leideck
University of Mannheim
Department of Practical Computer Science III
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68131 Mannheim
Germany

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