[Kmymoney] dos2unix: was: KMM misbehaves after trying to install qif
Jack
ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net
Sat Aug 20 13:10:11 UTC 2011
On 2011.08.20 01:31, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 07:02:34 -0700 (PDT) Jack
> <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> ...but just as a test you could try "dos2linux < date.qif >
>>> newdate.qif" to change the line endings and see if that copy will
>>> import.
>
> KMyMoney should be able to deal with this. It reads a byte stream and
> simply treats both as line endings and at the same time skips empty
> lines. So "something<CR><LF>" actually is read as two lines
> "something<CR>" and "<LF>" where the second one is empty and skipped.
>
> BTW: isn't it 'dos2unix date.qif' and it converts the stuff in the
> same file?
Yes, that will also work. Historically (at least from memory) I've
generally run it the long way so I have both versions around to test,
as when I need to do that, I'm working on a shared file that I need to
use both on Windows and Linux.
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