Putting Lines to Together.

[bigb89]

Hi Guys,

Sorry if this may seem like a stupid question. I can probably find my answer on google, but I don't know exactly what I should search for. So here's what I would like to do:

Let's say I have a text file containing the following:

Hi,
my
name
is
bigb89.

What could I do to make that same file like this?:

Hi, my name is bigb89.

It doesn't matter the language I use (shell, perl, awk, sed, etc). I just would like know of a way that I can achieve that.

Regards.

[anomie]

One easy way is with tr(1):
% cat text_file | tr '\n' ' '

But watch out -- that will strip off the very last newline as well (which you probably don't want).

[TerryP]

How I would do it:

$ ex - -c '%j|wq' file'


If you want to join a specific range of lines, replace the '%' with 'startline-number,endline-number'

[18Googol2]

%xargs echo < your_file



Have a look at this webpage for more alternative solutions:

http://linux.dsplabs.com.au/rmnl-rem...-sam-ssam-p65/

[bigb89]

Hi Guys,

Thank you all for all the replies!

I'll try out those commands to see how it works out!