How to cat/echo multiple entries into a string?

[whatisthis987]

I have a file which contains one name in each line. I would like to cat/echo all the names to one single line. How do I do that?

For example,
From:
ALAN
ALEX
BEN

To:
ALAN ALEX BEN

Please help. Thanks.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Just change the separators from newline ( [tt]\n[/tt] ) to space ( ).

tr '\n' ' ' < /input/file

Feherke.

http://rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[PHV]

In a ksh-like shell:
echo $(</path/to/from)

Hope This Helps, PH.
FAQ219-2884
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[whatisthis987]

Thank you guys. Both methods work. This is so much easier than the foreach+printf method.

 

[olded]

xargs < myfile