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[Unix]Remove line breaks

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loic -  
Hello,

in a file I have line breaks and I'd like to know how to remove them.

Example: it's
nice

I want: it's nice

7 answers

  1. batmat
    And from what I see, it's more than just the \r, it's the newline that you want to remove. In fact, it's the \n

    Sometimes you have both \r\n

    You need to use the tr command to do this: 
    $tr -d '\r\n' < tonfichier > tmp


    In tmp you have "tonfichier" without line breaks, so if you want to replace the original file, you need to do 
    mv tmp tonfichier


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    1. batmat
      Otherwise Loic, you could maybe say "thank you" or "that's not good for me", but say something ...

      @++

      Are you hesitating between Linux and Windows?
      Do you want to spend time or money? :-D
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      2. batmat
        The carriage return is \r not \p

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        2. Pascal
          Hi,
          I might be getting ahead of myself, but I think the code \p means "carriage return". So try to do a delete by specifying \p without quotes.

          :-)
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          1. loic
            and how do you do the delete?
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        3. batmat
          So, have you tried?

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          1. Kuching Contributor
            Hi Loic,

            I might not have understood the thing, but next time do your FTP in ASCII, it could help (O::

            See you  K.
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            1. batmat
              Why are you talking about ftp Kuching? Reference to another thread?!?

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            2. Kuching Contributor
              @batmatArghhh I read it wrong! I was thinking about the /n at the end of each line when you don't convert to ASCII )O:: Read it wrong! Sorry!

              See you later K.
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