dos2unix — DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter.

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One Day One Command (By Vishravars Ramasubramanian)
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dos2unix — DOS/MAC to UNIX text file format converter.

Summary:

Each OS will indicate the line end using Line Feed (LF,10) or Carriage
Return (CR,13). So when transferring a file from DOS to Linux, you have
to convert the Line end from DOS format to Linux format.

dos2unix will convert the DOS/MAC Text file to Unix format.

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lsdev – Display information about installed hardware

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