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Asked: 2021-11-11T08:06:59+00:00 In:

Batch To Detect Unix And Windows Line Endings

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Hi,

I am stuck with my windows batch script 🙁

I want to check if a text file contains unix style line endings (LF)
and windows style line endings (CR LF).

I am able to detect windows style line endings with this command:

for /f “tokens=*” %%t in ( ‘findstr /r “$” test.txt ) do set win_line_ending=1

But I don’t know how to detect the unix style line ending. I only want to use windows commands (no extra tools).

Help is really appreciated!

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    1. Well then, I might as well use a version that works with batch scripts:
      Set fso = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
      Set Win = New RegExp : Win.Pattern = “\r\n”
      Set Unix = New RegExp : Unix.Pattern = “[^\r]\n”

      For Each arg In WScript.Arguments
      file = fso.OpenTextFile(arg).ReadAll
      If Win.Test(file) Then
      EOL = “=Win32”
      ElseIf Unix.Test(file) Then
      EOL = “=UNIX”
      Else
      EOL = “=Unknown”
      End If
      WScript.Echo fso.GetFileName(arg) & EOL
      Next ‘arg

      Usage (assuming you called the script checkEOL.vbs):
      cscript //nologo checkEOL.vbs

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