On 01/11/09 03:31, Joachim Backes wrote:
On 11/01/2009 09:25 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 01/11/09 02:54, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
>
>
> [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
>
> 35 % 6.0 17.0 8 % 0.4 5.0
>
> That's the best solution yet. Not sure what it's doing but will look at
> the man page again when I am fully awake.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bob
>
The tr command reads from stdin (that's the output of cat) and
transforms all new line chars to blanks (see "man tr"), so all lines
will be concatenated (by a blank char) to *one* line.
Yes, I kept wondering, if there was a way to change the "new line" to a
space, tab, comma, whatever but I couldn't see how. Obviously I lack the
skill to do the things I want ...
Thanks to all.
Bob