i have a file as:

1
2
3
4
5

i want output as :

1 2 3 4 5

can anybody help on this??

Try this:

Some thing similar
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cat filename | paste -s -
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Or for more advance operations, I have awk script by some forum like this
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#! /bin/sh

## ------------------------------------------------------------
## -- Transpose a matrix:
## -- Assumes all lines have same number of fields
## --
## -- Usage:
## -- script <STDIN> ^D
## -- script <input file>
## -- cat <input file> | script
## ------------------------------------------------------------
exec awk '
BEGIN {
FS = ","
OFS = ","
}
NR == 1 {
n = NF
for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++)
row[i] = $i
next
}
{
if (NF > n)
n = NF
for (i = 1; i <= NF; i++)
row[i] = row[i] "," $i
}
END {
for (i = 1; i <= n; i++)
print row[i]
}' ${1+"$@"}
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This assumes "," as input file field seperator

cat filename | xargs

thnx a lot for ur nice suggestions ......

Or:

echo $(<filename)