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Old 08-16-2008
Error how to remove all tabs and newline (\n)

how to remove all tabs and newline (\n) from the exicting file
# 2  
Old 08-16-2008
Code:
tr -d '\011\012' <existing >new

Not all variants of tr understand the \000 octal notation; if so, read your local tr man page to find out what to use instead. Popular alternatives are C-like annotations, where \t is tab and \n is newline.
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Old 08-16-2008
try this
sed -e 's/
//g' -e 's/[TAB]//g' filename
or
sed 's/[TAB]\|
//g' filename
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