Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 08:50:58 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: remove newlines from a file Message-ID: <200909020850.58967.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>
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[Arrrrgghh. To list this time] On Tuesday 01 September 2009 20:03:19 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? I'd use rs(1). <inputfile rs -C\ (The \ is escaping a space delimiter.) unless I was worried about maximum length of output lines, in which case <inputfile xargs Jonathan
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