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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
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etc....


I want the output as

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

How to achieve this ?
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tr -s '\n' '|' < inputfile | sed 's/|$//' > newfile
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Hope this should work !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AWk:

cat filename | awk '{printf "%s|",$0}'

or more simpler one using tr command

cat filename | tr '\n' '|'


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