Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 13:55:37 -0500 From: Mak Kolybabi <mak@kolybabi.com> To: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: remove newlines from a file Message-ID: <20090901185537.GA25956@brisbane.nepharia.org> In-Reply-To: <F2B402210EF1C4F7331B41C2@utd65257.utdallas.edu> References: <F2B402210EF1C4F7331B41C2@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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On 2009-09-01 18:03, 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? Personally, I'd use: % tr -d '\n' < inputfile -- Matthew Anthony Kolybabi (Mak) <mak@kolybabi.com> () ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Against HTML e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org | Against proprietary extensions
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