tr command behaving unexpectedly

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Im trying to execute the below command on our server to list files and replace the newline in the file list with spaces, but the character 'n' is getting replaced with a space, is there any environment variable that needs to be set in UNIX?

sh -c 'ls -trx /data/inbound/drm/DRM_PRCC_Category_Flat*.txt /data/inbound/drm/DRM_PRCG_Group_Flat*.txt | tr "\n" " " '

gives the output

Output from command ====>
/data/i bou d/drm/DRM_PRCC_Category_Flat_20090617_113245.txt
/data/i bou d/drm/DRM_PRCG_Group_Flat_20090617_113319.txt

I expect the output to be
/data/inbound/drm/DRM_PRCC_Category_Flat_20090617_113245.txt /data/inbound/drm/DRM_PRCG_Group_Flat_20090617_113319.txt

Funnily the same command is working fine on 3 other servers.

Is there any environment variable that needs to be set or any of the LC_ env variables that hav eto be changed?

Regards
Ramesh

2

You can use sh -c

'ls - trx /data/inbound/drm/DRM_PRCC_Category_Flat*.txt /data/inbound/drm/DRM_PRCG_Group_Flat*.txt |tr -d '\n'
or
tr -s '\n' ' '
if you want space in between.