Text Manipulation .

[rveri]

Hi All,

I have a file : team1.txt
with the following details,

$ cat team1.txt

John
Christian
Veri
Ronald
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I want this to be show in this way ,
$ cat team1.txt
John Christian Veri Ronald

How can I do that , with the help of shell script.

Many Thanks ,
Veri.

[Muthukumar_5]

awk '{ printf $0" "; } END { print; }' team1.txt

hth.

[Muthukumar_5 · Accepted solution]

Another way as,

# paste -s -d" " team1.txt

hth.

[Muthukumar_5]

To update into the same file then,

# perl -pe 's/\n/ /' team1.txt | perl -pe 's/$/\n/' > team1.txt

hth.

[Raj D.]

Hi ,
You can use the tr command also to do that.

Raj.

[rveri]

Hi Muthukumar,
The first post with awk command does not work . and giving same output.
Do you know how to get it thru awk also.

Thanks,

[Raj D.]

Hi Veri ,

You can do this using the following tr command:

$ tr -s '/\n' '/ /' < team1.txt

Cheers ,
Raj.

[sparky_2]

Why not use a shell script to do this?
eg.
#!/usr/bin/sh
for x in $(cat team1.txt)
do
print "$x \c"
done
print
#end

[sparky_2]

PS. Tried it out and Muthukumar's awk command does work -
awk '{printf $0" ";}END {print}' team1.txt

[rveri]

Hi Sparky ,

i) Your command rather shell script , works fine , But I dont understand why 2 print given in the script.

ii) Muthukumars perl script works great.

ii) also now Muthukumars awk command also now works fine , after putting printf .

[Muthukumar_5]

If you want to update in to the same file then,

awk '{printf $0" ";}END {print}' team1.txt > temp.txt
mv temp.txt team1.txt

AND,

Your profile says as,

I have assigned points to 126 of 211 responses to my questions.

Try to change to 211 of 211 responses by assigning points ;) It will give more responses and help.

hth.

[Raj D.]

what about this one,

$ tr -s '/\n' '/ /' < team1.txt > team2.txt
$ mv team2.txt team1.txt

Cheers,
Raj.

[rveri]

Thanks Muthukumar , Sparky and Raj,

All above works ,

Thank you.

[rveri]

Thanks all,

Muthukumar , "Try to change to 211 of 211 responses by assigning points "

Can you have a look now ..


Thanks all & who replied. Got solution.

[rveri]

Got solution. Many Thanks to all.

[Muthukumar_5]

Hi Veri,

Thanks for turning into a user who has given more points than the responses. ;)

It is changed as,

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I have assigned points to 216 of 213 responses to my questions.

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:) Don't know. It is being a problem to some of the users. Post it in the ITRC Forums Issues.

hth.

[rveri]

Thank you.
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