topic Re: printing in Operating System - HP-UX

printing

SAM_24 — Tue, 13 May 2003 18:25:52 GMT

Hi,

I want to print following lines

line1
line2
line3

as

line1 line2 line3.

I want to print in a single line instead of three lines.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

Re: printing

James R. Ferguson — Tue, 13 May 2003 18:45:49 GMT

Hi:

I assume the lines reside in a file. Thus:

# cat filename|xargs

If not, then consider:

# echo "line1\nline2\nline3"|xargs

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: printing

Geoff Wild — Tue, 13 May 2003 18:48:51 GMT

Create a script with:

#! /bin/sed -nf

H
$ {
x
s/\n//g
p
}

Example (script caled join.sed):

join.sed yourfile

Rgds...Geoff

Re: printing

john korterman — Tue, 13 May 2003 20:51:40 GMT

Hi,
if it is just a matter of translating carriage return characters into spaces, tr is fast, e.g.:
# tr "\012" "\040" < linefile

regards,
John K.

Re: printing

SAM_24 — Tue, 13 May 2003 21:44:10 GMT

Geoff,

May I ask why it is not working if I don't use
H and x commands with s/\n//g?

Thanks a lot.

Re: printing

Bill Hassell — Wed, 14 May 2003 01:44:32 GMT

Here's a couple of alternatives:

cat file_name | paste - - -

(use - for each column needed)

pr -3 -t file_name

(in this case, each line is arranged vertically rather than horizontally)

Re: printing

Geoff Wild — Wed, 14 May 2003 11:41:19 GMT

Well...the H means - Append the contents of the pattern space to the hold space.

The x means - Exchange the contents of the pattern and hold spaces.

I don't know sed enough to explain it...

Here's a handy site:

http://www.unixguide.net/unix/sedoneliner.shtml

Rgds...Geoff