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Old 03-17-2008
hidnana hidnana is offline
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Separate lines in a single '|' separated line
Hi

I have a file with contents like

china
india
france
japan
italy
germany
.
.
.
.
etc....


I want the output as

china|india|france|japan|italy|germany|.|.|.

How to achieve this ?