SED TO JOIN WORDS

[beaster]

I have a file called file1.txt

The contents are similiar to:

big red dog jumps over fence
blue bird in yard
hound chases fox

I need to use sed or something else to read the input file and output to new file2.txt after joining all the words to look like:

bigreddogjumpsoverfence
bluebirdinyard
houndchasesfox

Any help would be appreciated!
Beaster

 

[PHV]

A starting point:
sed 's! *!!' /path/to/input > output

Hope This Helps, PH.
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[vgersh99]

sed 's/ //g' file1.txt > file2.txt

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

 

[PHV]

OOps, forget the g flag :~/

 

[p5wizard]

tr -d '[:blank:]' <inputfile >outputfile

or

tr -d ' \t' <inputfile >outputfile

should work as well.

HTH,

p5wizard