Re: How to list this data -

[Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/01/2009 09:42 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> On 01/11/09 03:31, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > On 11/01/2009 09:25 AM, Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > > On 01/11/09 02:54, Joachim Backes wrote:
> > > > cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "
> > >
> > >
> > >       [bobg@box9 ~]$ cat /home/bobg/usg.txt | tr "\n" " "

Some bits more compact:

tr </home/bobg/usg.txt "\n" " "

> > >       35 % 6.0 17.0 8 % 0.4 5.0
> > >
> > > That's the best solution yet. Not sure what it's doing but will look at
> > > the man page again when I am fully awake.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Bob
> >
> > The tr command reads from stdin (that's the output of cat) and
> > transforms all new line chars to blanks (see "man tr"), so all lines
> > will be concatenated (by a blank char) to *one* line.
>
>
> Yes, I kept wondering, if there was a way to change the "new line" to a
> space, tab, comma, whatever but I couldn't see how. Obviously I lack the
> skill to do the things I want ...
>
> Thanks to all.
>
> Bob


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