Detecting Windows line breaks / Hex representation

[Thomas Wiedmann]

Hello,

plain text files sometimes are created or edited on different OS, one time
on Windows, another time on Linux/UNIX and thus they are "living" on
different systems.
With a graphical text editor like UltraEdit (on Windows) I can search with
\p particularly for Windows or with \n for Linux/UNIX line breaks or even
switch to the Hex representation to see, whether a line break is 0D 0A or 0A
only.

Which search pattern /... is available (if any) to find Windows line breaks
- with less
- with vi(m)
to see, whether a line break is of Windows and not of Linux/UNIX?

Which command is available (if any) in
- vim
- less
to toggle to the Hex representation of a text file content?

Or else:
- Which command/tool is available for Linux/UNIX consoles
to toggle to the Hex representation of a text file content?

Thomas Wiedmann

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

Thomas Wiedmann (th...@gmx.de) wrote:
: Hello,

: Or else:

: - Which command/tool is available for Linux/UNIX consoles
: to toggle to the Hex representation of a text file content?

To examine the actual contents of a file from the command line
use od. man od shows various options, -a and -c are often most
useful.

od -c your-file | more