read a file in shell and put result in a line

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi All,

I have a to read a file and put the result in one line. The i am reading from contain the data like below.
1 signifies the beging of the new line.

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You mean you have to put all the lines in a file to a single line?

echo $(cat file)
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Yes, if i can have them in a variable then i be done.

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RESULT=$(echo $(cat file))
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Thanks, but how can I ve the result in one line. in the sample data supplied. i would want to have 1 to signifie the beginging the a new line(\n)

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i have sumthing like ths bt cant work

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nawk -F, '$1==1 {printf (FNR==1)?"":ORS} {printf $0}' myFile
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Thanks, this worked.