cat without new line

monohouse · 10-30-2004, 03:12 PM

I have a problem, I want to cat something but I don't want that after every parameter I get a new line, particularly I need that the output of :

Code:

cat /proc/sys/dev/sensors/asb100-i2c-0-2d/in0 /proc/sys/dev/sensors/asb100-i2c-0-2d/in1 /proc/sys/dev/sensors/asb100-i2c-0-2d/in2 /proc/sys/dev/sensors/asb100-i2c-0-2d/in3 /proc/sys/dev/sensors/asb100-i2c-0-2d/in4 /proc/sys/dev/sensors/asb100-i2c-0-2d/in5 /proc/sys/dev/sensors/asb100-i2c-0-2d/in6

will not be :

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1.39 2.08 1.81
1.39 2.08 1.81
2.96 3.63 3.28
2.67 3.28 3.02
2.51 3.79 3.28
0.00 0.00 3.28
0.00 0.00 3.28

but instead :

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1.39 2.08 1.81 1.39 2.08 1.81 2.96 3.63 3.28 2.67 3.28 3.02 2.51 3.79 3.28 0.00 0.00 3.28 0.00 0.00 3.28

anyone would know how to accomplish this ?

acid_kewpie · 10-30-2004, 03:15 PM

Code:

cat file file file | tr '\n' ' '

monohouse · 10-30-2004, 04:21 PM

thanks !

I may have another question though..........

what if I want to remove a certain string from the pipe ?

itzfritz · 10-30-2004, 04:29 PM

that would be

Code:

cat <whatever> | tr -d '<string to delete>'

note that

Code:

cat <whatever> | tr '\n' ' '

will replace newlines with space character.

monohouse · 10-30-2004, 04:45 PM

thanks dude !, yet it's still not exactly as I want it to be though ......

it seems that -d takes whatever in ' ' as independent chars, I need it to be a real string.

acid_kewpie · 10-30-2004, 04:54 PM

to delete words, you need sed, not tr. they are different tools, and do their own function very well. see the sed manpage for details, but essentially... "cat blah | grep s/la/ooo/g" will give "boooh"

monohouse · 10-30-2004, 05:09 PM

though grep gave me an error, I quickly (after reading the manual for sed) figured that you actually mean sed.

thanks dudes, you've been VERY helpful !

also I found a strange thing ...........if you give cat more than 4 files and then pipe them through

Code:

| tr '\n' ' '

the

Code:

tr '\n' ' '

part doesn't work, maybe it has a limit on the number of operations