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Date:      Tue, 01 Sep 2009 15:38:58 -0300
From:      Rodrigo Gonzalez <rjgonzale@estrads.com.ar>
To:        Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: remove newlines from a file
Message-ID:  <4A9D6A42.1010700@estrads.com.ar>
In-Reply-To: <F2B402210EF1C4F7331B41C2@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
References:  <F2B402210EF1C4F7331B41C2@utd65257.utdallas.edu>

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On 09/01/2009 03:03 PM, 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?
>

A simple solution could be using tr command

tr -d '\012' < file > output_file




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