Script to find and remove characters

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi.

I have many files in a folder, and even more in the subfolders. I need a script that finds and removes certain characters (them being /n in this one) in the files in the folder and it's subfolders.

So, could someone write me a script that works in Linux, does this:

Searchs for "/n" in all files in the folder and it's subfolders.
Removes the "/n" from all the files

Thank you VERY much, I'm really a newbie in these things and I need this badly.

2

You may be new, but what have you tried so far?

3

I've been trying to google, and find the code from this forum. But, I have to say, I don't really know anything about this kind of coding, so:

I haven't really tried nothing.

I just got this task, as I'm in work atm, with "nothing better to do".

As said, if you can write me such code, I would appreciate it very much.

4

for i in `find . -type f`
do
cat $i|tr -d '\n' > newfile
mv newfile $i
done

5

I don't write code for people, I prefer to help them with their code, but there are many others here that will write the code for you, as pt14 has done.

6

beware of files with spaces. put quotes around `find....`
Also, quote your variables and forget about the cat.

...
tr -d "\n" < "$i" > newfile
...