On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:40 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
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`)
Or to avoid the fork & exec:
echo $(<multi_line_file)
-Chris