I just pondered upon this problem while executing some tasks in shell.
How can I convert a .txt file which contains text in the following format[vertical direction]:
H
e
l
l
o
W
o
r
l
d
Note: The line without any letter contains a space and EOL
I need to convert to:
Hello World
I tried the following command: cat file1.txt |tr '\n' ' ' >file2.txt
Output:
H e l l o W o r l d
How can I proceed further? Sorry, if this question has already appeared. If so, please provide me the link to the solution or any command for the work around.
You are replacing the new lines with spaces. Instead, remove them with -d:
$ echo "H
> e
> # <- there is a space here
> W
> o" | tr -d '\n'
He Wo
With a file:
tr -d '\n' < file # there is no need to `cat`!
Problem here is that the last new line is removed, so the result is POSIXly a 0-lines file.