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Old 04-22-2009
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Originally Posted by rsriramiyer View Post
I have a file temp.dat. The contents of this file is as follows

abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh
abcdefgh


The multiple records in this file needs to be converted in to a single record.

abcdefgh abcdefgh abcdefgh abcdefgh abcdefgh abcdefgh
awk '{printf $0 " " ;next}' filename


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Devaraj Takhellambam