Re: Making my file all one line

[ehdonhon]

/usr/bin/perl -pe 'chomp' theFileName

[jmcnamara]

Unfortunately that joins words on sucessive lines together. Using the input given above:

    $ perl -pe 'chomp' file 
    line one line infoline two infoline threemore lines etc

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John.

[ehdonhon]

Yup. Good point.

perl -pe 'chomp; s/(\S)\s*$/$1 /;' file

The other thing I failed to mention is if you actually want to alter the file and not just dump to the screen, you would want to run 'perl -pi -e'.

Update: jmcnamara msg'ed me and correctly pointed out that my previous regexp didn't work at all, and if it did it would have also created one space for every blank line. :(