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From: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Deleting newlines
Message-ID: <1990Jan5.033215.5337@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 5 Jan 90 03:32:15 GMT
References: <990@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Reply-To: johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine)
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Organization: Segue Software, Cambridge MA
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In article <990@manta.NOSC.MIL> barajas@manta.NOSC.MIL (Albert A. Barajas) writes:
>Is there a quick and dirty way to delete newlines
>from an ascii text file?

	tr -d \\012 < input > output

you might want to get rid of carriage returns, too:

	tr -d \\012\\015 < input > output
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