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Determine and detect the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, nul and non-ascii characters

12 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 2 stories, 10 comments · first 2022-01-17 · latest 2025-07-09

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  1. …It can be installed via Homebrew or you can download standalone binaries for all platforms: https://github.com/jftuga/chars
    comment by jftuga · 2025-07-09 · in Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RCE
  2. …tool (written in Go) to determine and detect the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters: https://github.com/jftuga/chars
    comment by jftuga · 2024-12-05 · in Stop Requiring CRLF Line Endings
  3. …a command line program to determine/detect the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters https://github.com/jftuga/chars Stand-alone binaries are provided for all major platforms.
    comment by jftuga · 2024-10-13 · in CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished
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    Show HN: Chars – CLI to determine the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, nul chars
    story by jftuga · 2024-08-07 · 1 comment
  5. …https://github.com/jftuga/photo_id_resizer - Resize photo ID images using face recognition technology https://github.com/jftuga/chars - Determine the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters Here is a fairly new Firefox extension…
    comment by jftuga · 2023-12-13 · in Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
  6. …new command line switch, -F * when used with -f, only display a list of failed files, one per line https://github.com/jftuga/chars/releases/tag/v2.3.0
    comment by jftuga · 2022-10-08 · in The shortest pull request ever
  7. Thanks for the issue, I've subscribed to it. https://github.com/jftuga/chars/issues/2 According to the page, several machines and operating systems used CR as EOL. While the systems are all obsolete, files from that era that use CR as EOL…
    comment by pabs3 · 2022-10-07 · in The shortest pull request ever
  8. …alone cli program to do this. It determines the end-of-line format, tabs, bom, and nul characters: https://github.com/jftuga/chars
    comment by jftuga · 2022-10-06 · in The shortest pull request ever
  9. See my other comment in this thread about my project: https://github.com/jftuga/chars
    comment by jftuga · 2022-10-06 · in The shortest pull request ever
  10. …uses CRLF or LF. Tab and nul characters are also evaluated. Please see the Examples in my repo: https://github.com/jftuga/chars
    comment by jftuga · 2022-10-06 · in The shortest pull request ever
  11. …show which files use CRLF and which use LF. It also shows results for TAB, NUL, BOM-8 and BOM-16: https://github.com/jftuga/chars You can use the -f switch to help with pipelines and -j for JSON output.
    comment by jftuga · 2022-01-25 · in Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
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    I wrote a CLI tool to determine the end-of- line format, tabs, bom, and nul
    story by ermantrout · 2022-01-17 · 0 comments