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Old 11-03-2008
Java append string with spaces to a line

hi i have a file like (every string contains 16 chars)
CTL1330000000000
0000 00
008000

0080000000

i need to form a line and write to a file

CTL13300000000000000 00008000 0080000000
total chars should be 64

please urgent

thanks
Satya
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Old 11-03-2008
please try this:

perl -p -e 's/[\r\n]//' <File_name>
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Old 11-03-2008
or you can try this also:

tr -d '\012' <Filename
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