[plug] Does anyone know where i can get source for dos2unix?

[John Summerfield]

> On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> > > > for file in $(find .); do tr -d '\r' <$file >/tmp/trimmed; mv -f
> > > > /tmp/trimmed $file; done
> > > 
> > > I wouldn't recommend running this as root.  Actually, I wouldn't
> > > recommend running this at all. :)
> > 
> > I do dry runs first to see what's being hit.
> 
> What Christian was referring to, was that if someone else on your system

There IS nobody else on my system

> ran ln -s /etc/passwd /tmp/trimmed before you ran that command as root,
> your passwd file would be overwritten.

Neither did anyone else say anything about /tmp. I didn't say anything 
about running anything as root: I agree that running things as root unless 
necessary as a bad idea: I winge, whine and complain to authors if a 
source rpm can't be "rpm --rebuild"ed as me.



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