On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 03:55:08PM -0400, Chris Tyler wrote: > 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 > > >>>> > > > > echo `cat multi_line_file` > > or > > echo $(cat multi_line_file`) > > Or to avoid the fork & exec: > > echo $(<multi_line_file) But you will end up with problems with the number of arguments on a command line if multi_line_file is too large. How about: cat multi_line_file | xargs Note that the default command for xargs is echo Or, to avoid a "useless use of cat" award (see http://partmaps.org/era/unix/award.html): xargs < multi_line_file -- Norman Gaywood, Computer Systems Officer University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia ngaywood@xxxxxxxxxx Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 3337 http://mcs.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
