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From: gt0178a@prism.gatech.EDU (BURNS,JIM)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: removing end of line mark with sed
Message-ID: <12915@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 22 Aug 90 23:23:19 GMT
References: <1990Aug19.194911.16628@fs-1.iastate.edu>
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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in article <1990Aug19.194911.16628@fs-1.iastate.edu>, spam@hobbes.cc.iastate.edu (Begley Michael L) says:

> How do I remove the end of line marker from a stream?  for example,
> how do I make it into:
> 1   2   3

> I tried      sed 's/\n//'      but that didn't work.  Thanks.


It's not sed, but it's kind of cute:

x=`cat filename`
echo $x|cat >filename2
echo ''>>filename2
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