removing new lines from a file

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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
Subject: removing new lines from a file
OS: xp / korn shell
CPU/Ram: 196

Comment:

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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Response Number 1

Name: David Perry
Date: December 4, 2003 at 05:44:47 Pacific
Subject: removing new lines from a file

Reply: (edit)

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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Response Number 2

Name: hernandez
Date: December 4, 2003 at 06:25:45 Pacific
Subject: removing new lines from a file

Reply: (edit)

awesome - works a treat
thanks

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