to replace a new line character

chan · #1 (**permalink**) 01-11-2008

sample I/p:

S12J LLL
H77K PPP
J25O LOP
I73S lOP
K99O PLO

Required O/p:

S12J LLL H77K PPP J25O LOP I73S lOP K99O PLO

how to replace a new line character with space using sed command only

Cheers,
Chan

funksen · #2 (**permalink**) 01-11-2008

Code:

 sed -e 'H;1h;$!d;g;y/\n/ /' file

or

Code:

cat file  | tr '\n' ' '

ghostdog74 · #3 (**permalink**) 01-11-2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by funksen;302157564
[code

cat file | tr '\n' ' '[/code]

Code:

tr '\n' ' ' < file

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