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.
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