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Old 01-29-2007
Error Formatting the lines
I have a file with the below lines

1521
1522
1523
1524
1525
1526
...
174 lines all numbers like above. I want the above file to appear as below.

1521,1522,1523,1524.....
All the numbers should be separated by comma.

Pls tell me how to do this ....

Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 01-29-2007
Code:
#!/bin/sh
# comma.sh

read LINE
echo -n ${LINE}

while read LINE
do
        if [[ ! -z "${LINE}" ]]
        then
                echo -n ",${LINE}"
        fi
done

echo

Code:
$ echo -e "1\n2\n3\n4\n5\n" | ./comma.sh
1,2,3,4,5
$

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