Hello,
How can I take the following output:
outputa
outputb
outputc
and turn it into single line ouput, with a single space between each field like below:
outputa outputb outputc
presume this is the output from a script. You can change your script to display in the same line instead of printing in the newline.
Eg :-
echo "outputa\c "
echo "outputb\c "
echo "outputc"
'\c' in the above echo will make sure next echo to print in the same line.
correct, but you may have to use -e option with echo to get the \c interpreted.
-ilan
am on solaris and using Bourne shell which doesn't require '-e' option 
Mani, thanks again for correcting me; i am not much aware of Solaris.
have a look at the man page for tr.
What you probably want here is:
tr "\n" " " < infile
Thanks for all the replies. I also ended up finding this solution that fit:
awk -v x="" '{ s=s sprintf(x "%s" x " ", $0) } END { sub(",$", "", s); print(s) }' file.txt
Hi,
Sorry for the late reply
Try This Out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
awk 'BEGIN{FS="\n"}{printf "%s",$1 " "}' filename
Regards