Vim convert windows line breaks unix

As a consequence, some Windows applications will not show the line breaks in Unix-format files. There are many ways to solve this problem. This document provides instructions for using FTP , screen capture, unix2dos and dos2unix , tr , awk , Perl , and vi to do the conversion. To use these utilities, the files you are converting must be on a Unix computer.

When using an FTP program to move a text file between Unix and Windows, be sure the file is transferred in ASCII format, so the document is transformed into a text format appropriate for the host. Some FTP programs, especially graphical applications, do this automatically.

If you are using command line FTP, before you begin the transfer, enter:. Better yet, do this outside of vi. Improve this answer. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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Featured on Meta. New post summary designs on greatest hits now, everywhere else eventually. Martin Tournoij Paul Tomblin Paul Tomblin k 56 56 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Why did this get a downvote? It works, even when your file is mashed onto one line because it's got the wrong line end. My way replaces whatever is the line end in the file with the correct line end. This is for a different problem when your file has NO new lines in it, which I'll admit is more common.

This is a deeply mysterious command, but it works for me on a mac. Show 20 more comments. Jonathan Leffler Jonathan Leffler k gold badges silver badges bronze badges. This fixed the bug I was having Must be system dependent. Today, this one worked. The set command is done within vim, btw. Show 3 more comments. Pam Pam 3, 3 3 gold badges 18 18 silver badges 17 17 bronze badges. Worked on windows7 Vim7.

Solution's response didn't work for me, only MateenUlhaq commands helped me. Sparhawk 1, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 28 28 bronze badges. There's a tendency for search functions to accept broader rules for recognizing end-of-line sequences.

Using MacVim. Not complaining, that's exactly what I wanted. Just weird. Show 1 more comment. First, use :set ff? I had to do both. This is as functions in MacVim, which is based on gvim 7. Metagrapher Metagrapher 8, 1 1 gold badge 23 23 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. I agree, though I am certain that if that had worked for me at the time of original posting then I wouldn't have posted.

Bang on!! Works on Mac. Nice Answer. YMMV depending on which of [mac,windows,linux] you have and what fileformat is currently set to see with :set ff? Were you on a mac? Sagar Jain 6, 10 10 gold badges 42 42 silver badges 74 74 bronze badges. Andrew Sledge Andrew Sledge 9, 2 2 gold badges 26 26 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. BHarman BHarman 6 6 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges. This is the way I do it as well. I just never remember the command — pixel This is the recommended way to remove these endings.

This worked perfectly for my case as well.