RE: joining word/ lines in a file

• Suhen Pather <Suhen.Pather_at_strandbags.com.au>

> Hey this is a not a trick question, without buying the books
> listed below is there a way using the std awk, sed, tr *nix
> utilities.

Perl is going to be the simplest since it has a regex for whitespace and you can easily change the input record specifier (undef $/ for slurp mode).

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