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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing Carriage Return and or line feed from a file Post 62697 by vgersh99 on Friday 18th of February 2005 03:37:02 PM
Old 02-18-2005
tr -d '\n' < file

with nawk:
nawk '{printf}' file
nawk -v ORS='' '1' file

many ways to skin that cat.

Last edited by vgersh99; 02-18-2005 at 04:43 PM..
 

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CHRONICLE-RSS-IMPORTER(1)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 CHRONICLE-RSS-IMPORTER(1)

NAME
chronicle-rss-importer - Import entries from an RSS feed to chronicle SYNOPSIS
General Options: --output Specify the directory to write entries to. --feed Specify the URL of the feed. --sequential Specify that entries should be numbered rather than named. Help Options: --help Show the help information for this script. --manual Read the manual for this script. --verbose Show useful debugging information. ABOUT
Chronicle is a simple tool to convert a collection of text files, located within a single directory, into a blog consisting of static HTML files. This importer script will create a directory of input files from a given RSS feed, by downloading it and writing out each entry to a single text file. The output files will be named after the entries titles, or if B<--sequential> was used each entry will be numbered numerically. AUTHOR
Steve -- http://www.steve.org.uk/ LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2007-2010 by Steve Kemp. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The LICENSE file contains the full text of the license. perl v5.12.3 2011-05-03 CHRONICLE-RSS-IMPORTER(1)
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