> I have been trying to figure out how I can replace all the new line
> characters in a text file with spaces - need to do this to make html
> compatible with java and am too lazy to do it manually every time.
>
> Am sure there is a simple way to do it but I have looked and cant figure it
> out :(
Well, if you plan to do it regularly, you can use "tr" to do
exactly what you describe:
tr '\012' \040' <in.txt >out.txt
Or, if you want to do it in vim, you can do:
:%j
which will join all the lines in your file, normalizing
whitespace. If you don't want Vim to be smart about it, you can
tell it to simply remove the newlines:
:%j!
Alternatively, you can use
:%s/\n/ /
which will do the same thing as the "tr" command, only it will
appropriately leave a \n at the end of the file.
As a side note, I'm not sure what it meens to "make html
compatible with java", as they're fairly disjoint languages. One
is for markup; the other is for execution. :-/
-tim
