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retry on 07/29/08


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Remove newline characters from text

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This Perl one-liner will remove all newline characters from a text file, replacing them with a space. In the source, all newline characters in the file gearlist.xml are replaced with spaces, and the original file is saved as gearlist.xml.bak

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  1. $ perl -i.bak -pe 'chomp; print " ";' gear_list.xml

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