How to fix inconsistent line endings for whole VS solution?

Question

Visual Studio will detect inconsistent line endings when opening a file and there is an option to fix it for that specific file. However, if I want to fix line endings for all f

Answer 1

If you have Cygwin with the cygutils package installed, you can use this chain of commands from the Cygwin shell:

unix2dos -idu *.cpp | sed -e 's/ 0 [1-9][0-9]//' -e 's/ [1-9][0-9]* 0 //' | sed '/ [1-9][0-9] / !d' | sed -e 's/ [1-9][0-9 ] //' | xargs unix2dos

(Replace the *.cpp with whatever wildcard you need)

To understand how this works, the unix2dos command is used to convert the files, but only files that have inconsistent line endings (i.e., a mixture of UNIX and DOS) need to be converted. The -idu option displays the number of dos and unix line endings in the file. For example:

   0     491  Acad2S5kDim.cpp
 689       0  Acad2S5kPolyline.cpp
   0     120  Acad2S5kRaster.cpp
 433      12  Acad2S5kXhat.cpp
   0     115  AppAuditInfo.cpp

Here, only the Acad2S5kXhat.cpp file needs to be converted. The sed commands filter the output to produce a list of just the files that need to be converted, and these are then processed via xargs.