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# 1  
Old 12-09-2011
List into one line?
Probably, something really easy to do and stupid to ask help with it, but how to turn a list of numbers into one line of numbers.

I have:
Code:
, 116332682         
, 116332683         
, 116332685         
, 116332686         
, 116332687         
, 116332688         
, 116332689         
, 116332691

I need:
Code:
, 116332682, 116332683, 116332685, 116332686, 116332687, 116332688, 116332689, 116332691

I tried to cut, sed functions but they weren't right probably, and the unix is not really my thing Smilie

Thanks for any help.
Last edited by Scott; 12-09-2011 at 01:46 PM.. Reason: Code tags
# 2  
Old 12-09-2011
line-based things like cut and sed won't do what you want, because they're line-based. They don't consider \n part of the line, they process it separately.

tr operates on individual characters, not lines. -d means 'delete'. This deletes all newlines.
Code:
tr -d '\n' < infile > outfile

# 3  
Old 12-09-2011
or :
Code:
cat list| xargs

P.S.
Next time, use code tags for your data and code!
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# 4  
Old 12-09-2011
Didn't know xargs could do that. Smilie Neat.
# 5  
Old 12-10-2011
Thank you Smilie ..

code tags??
# 6  
Old 12-11-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by Iifa
Thank you Smilie ..

code tags??
How to Use Code Tags in The UNIX and Linux Forums
# 7  
Old 12-11-2011
try with AWK...
Code:
echo ",1
 ,2
 ,3
 ,4" |  awk '{for(i=1;i<=NF;i++){print $i}}' FS="\n" RS="" ORS=""

with SED
Code:
echo "
 ,1
 ,2
 ,3" |  sed -n '
 $ !{
 H
 }
 $ {
 H
 x;s/\n//g
 p
 }'

Last edited by Scott; 12-12-2011 at 01:42 AM.. Reason: Code tags
 
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