remove new line and bring next line up

[Doug Hunley]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 15:09, Vu Pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:

> In vi, I use J at the end of a line to move the next line up next to the
> current line. How can I do it over many lines by one or two commands ?
>
> What I want is to convert
>
> a,
> b,
> c,
> d,
> e
>
> to a,b,c,d,e
>
>
> I tried
> :n,m s/control-VcontrolJ//g
> but it fails.
>
>
cat $file | tr -d '\n' > $file.new

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