[Unix]Remove line breaks

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loic -  
batmat Posted messages 1880 Registration date   Status Membre -
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

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batmat Posted messages 1880 Registration date   Status Membre 114
 
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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batmat Posted messages 1880 Registration date   Status Membre 114
 
Otherwise Loic, you could maybe say "thank you" or "that's not good for me", but say something ...

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Pascal
 
It all depends on the text editor you are using...

The most common one is Vi. You will find everything you need in the PDF document below (regarding vi)

http://riceinfo.rice.edu/Computer/Documents/Unix/unix4.01.pdf

:O
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batmat Posted messages 1880 Registration date   Status Membre 114
 
The carriage return is \r not \p

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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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loic
 
and how do you do the delete?
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batmat Posted messages 1880 Registration date   Status Membre 114
 
So, have you tried?

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Kuching Posted messages 2702 Status Contributeur 157
 
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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batmat Posted messages 1880 Registration date   Status Membre 114
 
Why are you talking about ftp Kuching? Reference to another thread?!?

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Kuching Posted messages 2702 Status Contributeur 157 > batmat Posted messages 1880 Registration date   Status Membre
 
Arghhh 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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