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# 1  
Old 02-25-2008
Multi-line output to single line
Hello,

How can I take the following output:

outputa
outputb
outputc


and turn it into single line ouput, with a single space between each field like below:

outputa outputb outputc
# 2  
Old 02-25-2008
presume this is the output from a script. You can change your script to display in the same line instead of printing in the newline.
Eg :-

echo "outputa\c "
echo "outputb\c "
echo "outputc"

'\c' in the above echo will make sure next echo to print in the same line.
# 3  
Old 02-25-2008
correct, but you may have to use -e option with echo to get the \c interpreted.

-ilan
# 4  
Old 02-25-2008
am on solaris and using Bourne shell which doesn't require '-e' option Smilie
# 5  
Old 02-25-2008
Mani, thanks again for correcting me; i am not much aware of Solaris.
# 6  
Old 02-25-2008
have a look at the man page for tr.

What you probably want here is:

Code:
tr "\n" " " < infile

# 7  
Old 02-25-2008
Thanks for all the replies. I also ended up finding this solution that fit:

Code:
awk -v x="" '{ s=s sprintf(x "%s" x " ", $0) } END { sub(",$", "", s); print(s) }' file.txt
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