remove newlines from a file

Mak Kolybabi mak at kolybabi.com
Tue Sep 1 18:55:40 UTC 2009


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

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