Removing line brakes in a text file

[Larshg]

Hi

I have a text file, with some line brakes, I would like to remove thiese and make a singel line.

ex.
I have a text file that looks like this
>cat /usr/text.txt

line1 test3
line2
test2
>

I need it to go into one line in a variable
something like this

a=`cat /usr/text.txt|<remove line brakes, and replace them with &quot;&quot;>`
>echo $a
line1 test3 line2 test2
>

any help is appreciated.

/Larshg

 

[vgersh99]

sed -e :a -e '$!N;s/ *\n/ /;ta' myFile.txt

vlad
+----------------------------+
| #include<disclaimer.h> |
+----------------------------+

 

[PHV]

Try something like this:

a=`tr '\012' ' ' </usr/text.txt`

Hope This Help
PH.

 

[Ygor]

a=`paste -s -d '' text.txt`