Re: howto join lines

[Fred Silsbee]

--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Dave Burns  wrote:
> From: Dave Burns 
> Subject: Re: howto join lines
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." 
> Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 5:51 PM
> echo 'textone
> texttwo
> something'|xargs
> textone texttwo something
>
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:13 AM, David Hláčik
>  wrote:
> > Hello guys,
> >
> > i want to have those lines joined to one line with
>
> spaces
> > Before :
> >
> > textone
> > texttwo
> > something
> >
> > After :
> >
> > textone texttwo something
> >
> > So far i have been using fmt -w 2000 , but this is
>
> limited to 2000
> > characters. There must be something better.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > David
> >
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the good old command line "cat" was invented (I am told) to concatenate!

need to know the whole problem first! editing, scripting, programming
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