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Old 09-22-2009
Java Delete all line breakes from File doesnt work

Hi,

I have to delete all line breakes but it doenst work.
$ sed -e 's/\\n//g' file.txt
and the output contents still line breakes.
What should I do?

sincerely,
Blackbox
# 2  
Old 09-22-2009
Code:
tr -d '\n' < file.txt

# 3  
Old 09-22-2009
thank you very much.
:>
At his time I only thought I can handle this Problem with
sed or awk
# 4  
Old 09-22-2009

Awk is easy:

Code:
awk '{ printf "%s", $0 }' file.txt

It's possible with sed, too, but I wouldn't bother; it's too cryptic.
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