Remove Line Feed Characters from text file

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009, Scott Walker wrote:
>
>   Please remind me of the way to remove "0a" line feed characters from a
>   text file.  I don't want to replace them with anything, just remove
>   them.
>

In Linux/Unix systems, the newline character is the basic line
separator, and the resulting file with then be one long line.

A perl one-liner that will do this is:

perl -e 'while(<>) {chomp; print;}' < infile > outfile

Bill
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