OptionsOn dos2unix itself
-h--help
Show help for dos2unix
--
Treat all following options as file names. Use this option if you want to convert files whose names start with a dash
--allow-chown
Allow file ownership change in old file mode
-ascii
Convert only line breaks. This is the default conversion mode
-iso
Conversion between DOS and ISO-8859-1 character set
-1252
Use Windows code page 1252 (Western European)
-437
Use DOS code page 437 (US). This is the default code page used for ISO conversion
-850
Use DOS code page 850 (Western European)
-860
Use DOS code page 860 (Portuguese)
-863
Use DOS code page 863 (French Canadian)
-865
Use DOS code page 865 (Nordic)
-7
Convert 8 bit characters to 7 bit space
-b--keep-bom
Keep Byte Order Mark (BOM). When the input file has a BOM, write a BOM in the output file
-c--convmode
Set conversion mode <CONVMODE>
-D--display-enc
Set encoding of displayed text <ENCODING>
-f--force
Force conversion of binary files
-gb--gb18030
On Windows UTF-16 files are by default converted to UTF-8, regardless of the locale setting
-i
Display file information. No conversion is done <value>
--info
Display file information. No conversion is done <value>
-L--license
Display program's license
-l--newline
Add additional newline
-m--add-bom
Write a Byte Order Mark (BOM) in the output file. By default an UTF-8 BOM is written
--newfile
New file mode. Convert file INFILE and write output to file OUTFILE. File names must be given in pairs and wildcard names should not be used or you will lose your files <INFILE> <OUTFILE>
--no-allow-chown
Don't allow file ownership change in old file mode (default)
-o--oldfile
Old file mode. Convert file FILE and overwrite output to it <FILE>
-q--quiet
Quiet mode. Suppress all warnings and messages. The return value is zero. Except when wrong command-line options are used
-r--remove-bom
Remove Byte Order Mark (BOM). Do not write a BOM in the output file
-s--safe
Skip binary files (default)
-u--keep-utf16
Keep UTF-16 encoding
-ul--assume-utf16le
Assume that the input format is UTF-16LE
-ub--assume-utf16be
Assume that the input format is UTF-16BE
-v--verbose
Verbose operation
-F--follow-symlink
Follow symbolic links and convert the targets
-R--replace-symlink
Replace symbolic links with converted files
-S--skip-symlink
Keep symbolic links and targets unchanged (default)
-V--version
Display version number
