How do you search for files containing DOS line endings (CRLF) with grep on Linux?

Question

I want to search for files containing DOS line endings with grep on Linux. Something like this:

grep -IUr --color \'\\         


        

Answer 1

You can use file command in unix. It gives you the character encoding of the file along with line terminators.

$ file myfile
myfile: ISO-8859 text, with CRLF line terminators
$ file myfile | grep -ow CRLF
CRLF