Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:16:33 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: George Vagner <kf7nn@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: creating file without <CR> Message-ID: <19980219211633.62074@emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <199802200125.TAA02646@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>; from "George Vagner" on Thu Feb 19 19:25:08 GMT 1998 References: <199802200125.TAA02646@mutsgo.dyn.ml.org>
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In the last episode (Feb 19), George Vagner said: > I am trying to merge 3 files together so as to have them on one line > but everything i try keeps inserting carriage returns. > > Needed Example: > > this is file onethis is file2this is file3 > > what i am getting is > > this is file1 > this is file2 > this is file3 Are you saying you have three files, each one line long, ending in <CR>, and you need them joined, but with the first two <CR>s removed? cat file1 file2 file3 | tr -d "\n" ; echo or paste -d \\0 file1 file2 file3 or echo `cat file1``cat file2``cat file3` I imagine awk, sed, or perl would be able to do the job as well. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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