How To Install dos2unix on CentOS 8
dos2unix is Text file format converters
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dos2unix on CentOS 8.
What is dos2unix
Convert text files with DOS or Mac line endings to Unix line endings and vice versa.
We can use yum or dnf to install dos2unix on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dos2unix.
Install dos2unix on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dos2unix using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dos2unix
Install dos2unix on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dos2unix using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dos2unix
How To Uninstall dos2unix on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the dos2unix package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dos2unix
dos2unix Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dos2unix
/usr/bin/mac2unix
/usr/bin/unix2dos
/usr/bin/unix2mac
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/f3571dab27427d1af2783da47ea9c28d07930f
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/ff15c710a5914f5192f1e54b98d05ea29215f0
/usr/share/doc/dos2unix
/usr/share/doc/dos2unix/COPYING.txt
/usr/share/doc/dos2unix/ChangeLog.txt
/usr/share/doc/dos2unix/NEWS.txt
/usr/share/doc/dos2unix/README.txt
/usr/share/doc/dos2unix/TODO.txt
/usr/share/doc/dos2unix/dos2unix.htm
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/dos2unix.mo
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
/usr/share/man/zh_CN/man1/dos2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/zh_CN/man1/mac2unix.1.gz
/usr/share/man/zh_CN/man1/unix2dos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/zh_CN/man1/unix2mac.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dos2unix on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.