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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: removing end of line mark with sed
Message-ID: <13143:Aug2116:59:3390@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 21 Aug 90 16:59:33 GMT
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In article <768@studsys.mu.edu> jetzer@studsys.UUCP (Mike Jetzer) writes:
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> In article <1990Aug19.194911.16628@fs-1.iastate.edu> spam@iastate.edu (Begley Michael L) writes:
> >How do I remove the end of line marker from a stream?
> tr \\012 " " < file
> If you want more than one space (as your example seems to show), you
> can run the output of tr through sed or awk or whatever.

This is a bad idea, as spaces in the original would also be expanded. Do
the sed/awk bit first.

I'm about to start coding str, a ``string translator,'' to do everything
tr can do but with more than one character as a unit. It's not as if
other tools don't do the job; but somehow the syntax never seems right.

---Dan