Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 16:14:54 -0400 From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> To: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remove newlines from a file Message-ID: <20090901201454.GA54479@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <F2B402210EF1C4F7331B41C2@utd65257.utdallas.edu> References: <F2B402210EF1C4F7331B41C2@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 06:03:19PM +0000, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I found a sed tutorial once that did this, but I can't seem to find it
> again. I have a file with multiple lines, each of which contains a single
> ip followed by a /32 and a comma. I want to combine all those lines into a
> single line by removing all the newline characters at the end of each line.
>
> What's the best/most efficient way of doing that in a shell?
Use tr(1) something like
tr -d "[\n]" < inputfile > outputfile
////jerry
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