Stripping out newlines from string
Problem
Different versions of UNIX handle the stripping of newlines in a string differently. Obviously if you echo a string, the shell automatically expands newlines “\n”.
Solution
sed and tr don’t appear to like performing these substitutions. But with Perl its a steal.
Example
% echo ‘hello world\nhello world\ntest it’ | perl -ane ’s#\\n# #g; print,”";’hello world hello [...]
