Merging lines into one

Foxgard · #1 (**permalink**) 06-18-2005

Hello. I would be very pleased if sb. help me to solve my problem. I've got a file with many non blank lines and I want to merge all lines into one not destroy the informations on them. I've tryed it with split and paste, tr, sed , but everything I've done has been wrong. I know about crazy solution but I don't want to do it this way. Don't forget the simplier way is the better. Thaks

vgersh99 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-18-2005

tr -d '\n' < file

Foxgard · #3 (**permalink**) 06-18-2005

You don't understand me.

I've filled up my problem with red-coloured text to U understand me. Your solution only deletes all the newlines "\n". And that I didn't want to do with the file.
e.g.
from
A
B
C
into
ABC

reborg · #4 (**permalink**) 06-18-2005

How is that different from deleting the newline characters?

Foxgard · #5 (**permalink**) 06-19-2005

I see how you want it to work, but it doesn't work. When I send the command to bash, it deletes all the lines from input. I've had some problems with intepretation of the commands even if the command was standard before. I use the xandros 3.01,GNU bash version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-pc-linux-gnu). May the problem be in my OS?

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