On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 10:58 -0700, Fred Silsbee wrote: > > --- On Wed, 10/1/08, Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > From: Dave Burns <tburns@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Re: howto join lines > > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora." <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 5:51 PM > > echo 'textone > > texttwo > > something'|xargs > > textone texttwo something > > > > > > On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 5:13 AM, David Hláčik > > <david@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello guys, > > > > > > i want to have those lines joined to one line with > > spaces > > > > > > Before : > > > > > > textone > > > texttwo > > > something > > > > > > After : > > > > > > textone texttwo something > > > > > > So far i have been using fmt -w 2000 , but this is > > limited to 2000 > > > characters. There must be something better. > > > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > > > David > > > > > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe: > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > Guidelines: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > > > > > > > > > > > -- > the good old command line "cat" was invented (I am told) to concatenate! 'cat' will not remove newlines. > need to know the whole problem first! editing, scripting, programming Agreed. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines