Removing newlines (\n) with sed

Posted on Tuesday, 24th June, 2008 in Life

Today I had to search again on how to remove newline special characters with sed. Thanks to Kamil over at linux.dsplabs.com.au, I found it again rather quickly.

Now, this is just for my own safekeeping, so I don’t end up googling for it again … *shrug*

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echo -e "Line containing \nnewlines!" | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g'

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2 Responses to “Removing newlines (\n) with sed”

  1. On Tuesday, 24th June, 2008 at 17:33 Chewi said:

    That’s so ugly though, isn’t it! When I realised it would look like that, I ran looking for another solution. I found one.

    echo -e “Line containing \nnewlines!” | tr -d “\n”

  2. On Tuesday, 24th June, 2008 at 17:35 Chewi said:

    Ah sorry, I see it mentions that one too. Not sure why you’d still want to use sed!

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