Re: howto join lines

[Les Mikesell]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > i want to have those lines joined to one line with
> > >
> > > spaces
> > > > Before :
> > > >
> > > > textone
> > > > texttwo
> > > > something
> > > >
> > > > After :
> > > >
> > > > textone texttwo something
> > the good old command line "cat" was invented (I am told) to concatenate!
>
> 'cat' will not remove newlines.

Not by itself, but its a reasonable thing to run in backticks so the 
shell will do it for you:

echo `cat multi_line_file`
or
echo $(cat multi_line_file`)
if you prefer that syntax.