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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:05:51 +0300
From: Nikos Vassiliadis <nvass9573@gmx.com>
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Subject: Re: is there a program to joinlines?
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Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>>     I recently discovered it is a "good thing" to use a utility of 
>> some kind
>>     to joing the lines of a vi/vim-created file before using my
> 
> you mean getting one line from line file+line one from other file and 
> producing one line of output containing both
> 
> man paste
> :)

I think he means join all lines from a single file,
to produce a single-line file. In this case, you
should translate the \n character to space:
tr '\n' ' ' < /etc/motd

You could also use:
echo `tr '\n' ' ' < /etc/motd`
which will add a final \n, to avoid the funny looking
output of a text file with no \n at the end.

Nikos