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# 1  
Old 05-29-2008
delete \n character
Hello.

I'm next problem..

I'm a tmp file
Code:
$  cat tmp 
word1
word2
word3
word4

and I like have
Code:
word1 word2 word3 word4

I try with:
Code:
$  cat tmp |sed 's/\n//'
word1
word2
word3
word4

but 've same result

with
Code:
$  cat tmp |tr -d '\n'
word1word2word3word4

but return one token

any idea ?

thanks
# 2  
Old 05-29-2008
Code:
cat tmp | tr '\n' ' '

# 3  
Old 05-29-2008
thank you !!!
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