Removing newline in text file

[swingkyd]

Pardon my lack of knowledge here. I'm having trouble getting this BASH code to NOT output a newline

cat "$datafile" | fgrep -A 4 "$STEP_STRING"|grep "$STEP_FILTER" | cut -c 49-56 |tee -a "$OUTPUT_FILE"

I don't want the output to include a newline character. I think the culprit is the program "cut" which automatically adds a newline to the output.

The other option is right after this command to go back into the file and remove the newline. Either way, I don't want a newline at the end of the cut text that gets piped to tee.

I am aware that I can just stream the output to the $OUTPUT_FILE" (which doesn't help any) but I prefer to use tee at this moment.

Anyway, can someone please help me? I don't know how to do either of the solutions.

Thanks in advance

 

[PHV]

Replace this:
grep "$STEP_FILTER" | cut -c 49-56
By this:
awk "/$STEP_FILTER/"'{printf substr($0,49,8)}'

Hope This Helps, PH.
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