How to convert Windows end of line in Unix end of line (CR/LF to LF)

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I'm a Java developer and I'm using Ubuntu to develop. The project was created in Windows with Eclipse and it's using the Windows-1252 encoding.

To convert to UTF-8 I've used the recode program:

find Web -iname \*.java | xargs recode CP1252...UTF-8

This command gives this error:

recode: Web/src/br/cits/projeto/geral/presentation/GravacaoMessageHelper.java failed: Ambiguous output in step `CR-LF..data

I've searched about it and get the solution in Bash and Windows, Recode: Ambiguous output in step `data..CR-LF' and it says:

Convert line endings from CR/LF to a single LF: Edit the file with Vim, give the command :set ff=unix and save the file. Recode now should run without errors.

Nice, but I've many files to remove the CR/LF character from, and I can't open each to do it. Vi doesn't provide any option to command line for Bash operations.

Can sed be used to do this? How?

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