The line breaks in this directory are mac-style even when I do a checkout onto a Linux box, which means that I can't use grep on Linux properly. The following perl one-liner will fix this, but I wouldn't check the files in if I were you without testing on all platforms to see that the tools (MS Volt, I assume) still work with them. Magical one-liner on Linux: perl -pi -e 's/\r/\n/g' *.vtl Untested magical one-liner on Win32: perl -pi -e 's/\r/\r\n/g' *.vtl