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Old 02-03-2009
help for saving vertical datas to horizontal with "awk" or "cut"
hi,
i have a file having datas like that


./a.txt
12344
12345
12346
12347
.....
.....
...

i want to save this datas to another file like that

./b.txt
12344 12345 12346 12347 ... ... ...

i think awk can make this but how? Smilie waiting for ur help.
# 2  
Old 02-03-2009
Try this

cat a.txt | xargs -n`cat a.txt | wc -l`
# 3  
Old 02-03-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by ce9888
cat a.txt | xargs -n`cat a.txt | wc -l`
UUOC Smilie

@OP
Code:
tr '\n' ' ' < a.txt > b.txt

# 4  
Old 02-03-2009
thank you Smilie
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