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; [...]
