CRLF - cli tool to edit text files line endings

Installation

pip install -r requirements/requirements.txt
python setup.py install
crlf --help

Overview

Tool crlf can be used to change line endings to CRLF or LF of a single file, all files in a directory or all nested directories (with option -R).

Standard options

Show help message and options

crlf --help
crlf -h

Perform dry-run - inspect how the files would change, without actually modifying files:

crlf --dry-run  # no files will be changed

Suppress output - display only summary:

crlf --quiet  # display only summary
crlf -q

Suppress complete output - display nothing:

crlf --silent
crlf -s

Show version:

crlf --version
crlf -V         # uppercase "V"

Change line endings

Change file line endings:

crlf ./file.txt --to crlf   # change line endings of "file.txt" to CRLF
crlf ./file.txt --to lf

Change line endings of files in directory:

crlf directory/ --to crlf   # change line endings of all files in "directory" to CRLF
crlf directory/ --to lf

Change line endings of files in directory and its nested directories

crlf -R directory/ --to crlf   # change line endings of all nested files in "directory" to CRLF
crlf -R directory/ --to lf

Example execution

Example of standard execution:

crlf . --to crlf

Updated: .gitignore
Updated: CONTRIBUTING.md
Failed:  file.txt
         ^ ! expected text file in unicode encoding, failed to parse file
Updated: ReadMe.md
Updated: setup.py
Ignored: version
         ^ file already has CRLF line endings
Updated: version.py
Done. Updated: 5 files, ignored: 1 files, failed to read: 1 files.

Example of quiet execution:

crlf . --to crlf --quiet

Done. Updated: 5 files, ignored: 1 files, failed to read: 1 files.