In the transition from Linux to Mac, I also ran across a small problem with Mac formatted text files on remote Linux machines. It’s not that they don’t work, it’s just that they do not look good in my text editor, Vim my favored pager, less and a few other cli programs I use.Fortunately it is easy to fix the files, either in Vim itself, or with a little script I cooked up to do the job on a bunch of files all at once.”]
Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2008/10/mac-transitions-fixing-files.html