On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:37 +1000, Norman Gaywood wrote: > 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 Alas, that doesn't solve the problem with the excessive number/length of arguments either, because xargs will execute the echo multiple times if necessary to keep within the arg limits, potentially generating newlines in the output. ...Which is why I like the translate I proposed earlier: tr "\012" " " <multi_line_file -- Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
