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Dameon · Jun 18th, 2005, 11:52 AM

Echo by default outputs a newline character at the end of what you input. According to the man page, you can use the -n option to prevent this. Try changing your second statement to "do echo -n $i;". Note however that spaces are removed when doing a for, so you will have to re-add them.

My solution which is likely against every bash coding guideline in existance:

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 for i in $(cat cat_file_1); do echo -n $i; echo -n ' '; done; echo

The last echo is to add a newline to the end.

Jun 18th, 2005, 11:52 AM	#3
Dameon Troll Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Texas Posts: 732 Rep Power: 4	Echo by default outputs a newline character at the end of what you input. According to the man page, you can use the -n option to prevent this. Try changing your second statement to "do echo -n $i;". Note however that spaces are removed when doing a for, so you will have to re-add them. My solution which is likely against every bash coding guideline in existance: (Toggle Plain Text) for i in $(cat cat_file_1); do echo -n $i; echo -n ' '; done; echo for i in $(cat cat_file_1); do echo -n $i; echo -n ' '; done; echo The last echo is to add a newline to the end. __________________ MD5(sig) = bcef75433db02e9ad9bf81d6f7c5c270 Last edited by Dameon; Jun 18th, 2005 at 11:58 AM.