Mac CSV to Unix CSV Convertor

Another free utility from the makers of HSTracker

This drag & drop utility makes FileMaker and other Mac CSV files Unix compatible.

Instructions

To convert a file that contains Mac carriage returns to a Unix compatible one simply drag the file or a bunch of files onto the application icon. It will create correponding files with unix.csv appended to their names.

Details

MacCSV2UnixCSV converts carriage returns from old style Mac format to Unix friendly line feeds. Such files are typically created by applications like Excel and FileMaker. It also removes double-quotes from the data. HSTracker which is built using the FileMaker engine outputs CSV files in the old format, so this utility could be useful for HSTracker users who need to import the data to MySQL for example.

Uninstall

Simply move MacCSV2UnixCSV to the trash.

License

This utility is free and is provided without any support or warranty. You may modify the code as much as you like.

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Last updated September 21, 2008

Ofir Gal and Gal Consultancy Ltd have been providing IT services for more than a decade. Their customers include ie:music, airside, trmg, robbie williams, the gaia foundation, onedotzero and others. In the early 90s, Ofir authored GemBench which became the industry standard benchmark for the Atari ST platform (RIP) and was the technical editor of Atari World magazine. Following that he also contributed to Mac Action, Mac Format and Sound On Sound magazines. Since then he moved on to systems integration and database development and made various contribution to the Mac community, most notably the manual for the open source radmind project – one of the best mass deployment tools for OS X.