remove newlines from a file

Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com
Tue Sep 1 20:04:45 UTC 2009


--On Tuesday, September 01, 2009 13:55:37 -0500 Mak Kolybabi <mak at kolybabi.com> 
wrote:

>
> 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

Personally, I like your solution.  :-)

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