canon(1)                                                              canon(1)



NAME
       canon - file canonicalization


SYNOPSYS
       canon [options] [infile [outfile]]

       Options:

       [-hv] [--force] [--help] [--version]


DESCRIPTION
       Canonicalize  a  plain  text  file.  The canonicalization converts text
       with a <CR><LF> sequence at the end of a line of text, no trailing spa-
       ces or tabs on a line of text, and no trailing blank lines.

       The input file can use any of the traditional approaches to line termi-
       nation.  In DOS/Windows, text lines end with  a  Carriage  Return  (CR)
       followed  by  a  Line Feed (LF).  In Unix, text lines end with a single
       Newline character, which is a Line Feed (LF) character.  In  Macintosh,
       text  lines  end  with  a single Newline character, which is a Carriage
       Return (CR) character.

       If no infile is provided, then stdin is used.

       If no outfile is provided, then stdout is used.


OPTIONS
       The following options are available:

       -h --help
              Print online help.


       -v --version
              Print version information.


EXAMPLES
       Get input from stdin and write output to stdout.

              canon


       Get input from a.txt and write output to stdout.

              canon a.txt


       Canonicalize a.txt, and write the output to b.txt.

              canon a.txt b.txt


SEE ALSO
       unix2dos(1) dos2unix(1) iconv(1)




2013                               canon 1.0                          canon(1)