On Die, 14 Jan 2003 at 13:42 (-0500), Jody Grafals wrote: > > Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or > awk? > > for example > > cat > dog > goat > duck > > would become > > cat dog goat duck
You don't need to use sed or awk: jan@k500:~/tmp> x=`cat animals` jan@k500:~/tmp> echo $x cat dog goat duck or: jan@k500:~/tmp> cat animals | tr '\n' ' ' cat dog goat duck jan@k500:~/tmp> Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
