wrote the tool!

.gitignore

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 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
+
+
+# Added by cargo
+
+/target

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+[package]
+name = "newline_fixer"
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+edition = "2024"
+
+[dependencies]
+clap = { version = "4.5.51", features = ["derive"] }

src/main.rs

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+use clap::Parser;
+use std::{
+    fs::{File, read_to_string},
+    io::Write,
+    path::PathBuf,
+    process::exit,
+};
+
+#[derive(Parser, Debug)]
+#[command(
+    version,
+    about,
+    long_about = "This fixes files that sometimes get fucked up by Windows not using the stanard \\n notation for new lines."
+)]
+struct Args {
+    #[arg(short, long, help = "the file to fix")]
+    input: PathBuf,
+
+    #[arg(short, long, help = "the path to save the fixed file")]
+    output: PathBuf,
+}
+
+fn main() {
+    let args = Args::parse();
+    let file_read_res = read_to_string(args.input);
+    if file_read_res.is_err() {
+        println!("error reading broken file!");
+        println!("{}", file_read_res.err().unwrap());
+        exit(1);
+    }
+    let borked_string = file_read_res.unwrap();
+    let file_open_res = File::create_new(args.output);
+    if file_open_res.is_err() {
+        println!("error opening output file!");
+        println!("{}", file_open_res.err().unwrap());
+        exit(1);
+    }
+    let mut outfile = file_open_res.unwrap();
+    let fixed_lines: Vec<&str> = borked_string.split("\\n").collect();
+    for line in fixed_lines {
+        write!(outfile, "{}\n", line).unwrap();
+    }
+}