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Re: Get out of previuos command (N strings) and print it as one string

 
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Maxim Yakimenko
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Get out of previuos command (N strings) and print it as one string

Hi, collegues

How do I take out stream of command and print it out as one string. For example out is

1
2
3

and I want to print it as
1 2 3
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J. Bravo
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Re: Get out of previuos command (N strings) and print it as one string

Hi!

Try with xargs. For example:

ls | xargs

puts the output in one line.

Regards;

J. Bravo.
Dennis Handly
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Re: Get out of previuos command (N strings) and print it as one string

It depends on the commands. You could do something like this:
echo $(echo a
echo b
echo c )

Or send the output to a file, then:
(echo a
echo b
echo c ) > outfile
echo $(< outfile)
Sandman!
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Re: Get out of previuos command (N strings) and print it as one string

# xargs < file
Peter Nikitka
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Re: Get out of previuos command (N strings) and print it as one string

Hi,
solution with 'tr' (2nd arg is quote-blank-quote):
ls | tr '\012' ' '

mfG Peter
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Arturo Galbiati
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Re: Get out of previuos command (N strings) and print it as one string

Hi,
echo $(your command)

HTH,
Art