How To Install tofrodos on CentOS 8

tofrodos is Converts text files between MSDOS and Unix file formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tofrodos on CentOS 8.

What is tofrodos

Tofrodos is a text file conversion utility that converts ASCII and Unicode UTF-8 files between the MSDOS (or Windows) format, which traditionally have CR/LF (carriage return/line feed) pairs as their new line delimiters, and the Unix format, which usually have LFs (line feeds) to terminate each line. It is a useful utility to have around when you have to convert files between MSDOS (or Windows) and Unix/Linux/BSD (and her clones and variants). It comes standard with a number of systems and is often found on the system as “todos”, “fromdos”, “dos2unix” and “unix2dos”.

We can use yum or dnf to install tofrodos on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tofrodos.

Install tofrodos 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 tofrodos using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tofrodos

Install tofrodos 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 tofrodos using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tofrodos

How To Uninstall tofrodos on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the tofrodos package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tofrodos

tofrodos Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/fromdos
/usr/bin/todos
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8d/71e3a7dc9fec91e993b77b4ee3192ae8b1a00d
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/tofrodos/tofrodos.html
/usr/share/man/man1/fromdos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/todos.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tofrodos on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.