Plain text with Windows (CRLF) line endings

Twenty numbered lines of ASCII text in which every line ends with a carriage return and a line feed.

sample-text-crlf-line-endings.txt

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Type: text/plain
SHA-256: 941ca884d4f2e6f459b722b7c93ebbf43680c93bae01ecdeb71e4ff2876f7b96
Direct URL: https://sampletestfiles.com/downloads/samples/sample-text-crlf-line-endings.txt

Why test with this file

For checking line counting, diffing and normalisation between Windows and Unix conventions.

Lines	20
Line endings	CRLF (0D 0A)
Encoding	ASCII

What to check

After your application has processed sample-text-crlf-line-endings.txt, confirm that:

A line counter reports 20 lines, not 40 and not 1.
The byte count is unchanged after a round trip, so no conversion to LF took place.
Diff tools do not flag every line as modified.

How the file begins

The opening lines of sample-text-crlf-line-endings.txt, exactly as they appear in the file.

Line 01: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 02: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 03: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 04: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 05: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 06: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 07: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 08: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 09: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 10: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 11: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 12: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 13: this line ends with CR LF.
Line 14: this line ends with CR LF.

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Technical details

File name	sample-text-crlf-line-endings.txt
Format	TXT (Plain text)
Extension	.txt
MIME type	text/plain
Size	740 bytes (740 B)
Kind	Text
SHA-256	941ca884d4f2e6f459b722b7c93ebbf43680c93bae01ecdeb71e4ff2876f7b96
Created	2026-10-10
Validation	Exact size, signature bytes and structure checked when the file was generated
Preview	Available on this page
Source	Generated for this site; not copied from elsewhere
Licence	Free to use, modify and redistribute (terms)
Category	Documents

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sha256sum sample-text-crlf-line-endings.txt     # Linux
shasum -a 256 sample-text-crlf-line-endings.txt # macOS

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About TXT

Unformatted text with no structure beyond characters and line breaks. The simplest possible upload.

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