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  • change newlines to spaces (or commas or whatever). Acts as a filter or can have c/l args

    # newline to space; the whack before dollar-underbar is required alias nl2space="perl -ne 'push @F, \$_; END { chomp @F; print join(qq{ }, @F) , qq{\n};}' " # newline to comma; the whack before dollar-underbar is required alias nl2,="perl -ne 'push @F, \$_; END { chomp @F; print join(qq{,}, @F) , qq{\n};}' " PROMPT> cat /tmp/foo foo-001 foo-002 foo-003 foo-004 foo-005 foo-006 foo-007 foo-008 foo-009 foo-010 # 'tr' does not give a newline after it run. Makes a messy commandline. PROMPT> cat /tmp/foo|tr "\n" ' ' foo-001 foo-002 foo-003 foo-004 foo-005 foo-006 foo-007 foo-008 foo-009 foo-010 $PROMPT> tr "\n" ' ' /tmp/foo # 'tr' does not take arguements PROMPT> tr "\n" ' ' /tmp/foo tr: extra operand `/tmp/foo' Try `tr --help' for more information. # 'nl2space' is a filter and takes arguements, adds a newline after it runs. PROMPT> cat /tmp/foo| nl2space foo-001 foo-002 foo-003 foo-004 foo-005 foo-006 foo-007 foo-008 foo-009 foo-010 PROMPT> nl2space /tmp/foo foo-001 foo-002 foo-003 foo-004 foo-005 foo-006 foo-007 foo-008 foo-009 foo-010


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    alias nl2space="perl -ne 'push @F, \$_; END { chomp @F; print join(qq{ }, @F) , qq{\n};}' "
    relay · 2009-10-01 02:22:23 6

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