How to list this data -

[Bob Goodwin]

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 at 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