Text file modification

[rmueller58]

Wanted to check and see if someone has a simple way I can take a files that looks like this:

-n dbname1
-n dbname2
-n dbname3
-n dbname4
-n dbnamen

and make a line that looks like this:
-n dbname1 -n dbname2-n dbname3-n dbname4-n dbnamen


Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[Heironimus · Accepted solution]

echo $(cat yourfile)

[rmueller58]

Thank you Hermonius.. That did the trick..

[Dennis Handly]

Or better: echo $(< yourfile)

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Rex:

> Or better: echo $(< yourfile)

"better" = "faster" as documented in the Posix shell ('sh-posix') manpages.

Regards!

...JRF...