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 worldnhello worldntest it' | perl -ane 's#\n# #g; print,"";'


hello world hello world test it

Reference

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