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removing new lines from a file

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Name: hernandez
Date: December 4, 2003 at 04:52:47 Pacific
OS: xp / korn shell
CPU/Ram: 196
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Hi,

I have a massive datafile - 1,000,000+ characters. I want to remove all the new lines from it so the data is one continuos flow.
I tried xargs but it complains of exceeding 2048 characters.
Can anyone help?

thanks



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Name: David Perry
Date: December 4, 2003 at 05:44:47 Pacific
Reply:

Have you tried "tr". You can either change the newline character to something else, like a space or delete.

tr -d '\n'


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Name: hernandez
Date: December 4, 2003 at 06:25:45 Pacific
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awesome - works a treat
thanks


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