Re: better way to remove \n

Thanks John Little-4, and to everyone else that helped.
I appreciate all of your suggestions.

tr -d '\n' <old_file >new_file

seems to have worked best for me out of the suggestions I've tried so far.

Also, thank you Christian for the benchmark results. They were very helpful
=^D

John Little-4 wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 28, 10:19 am, drlatex <n_datt...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a gigantic file (millions of lines long), and I want to make it
>> all
>> one line. There is ONE \n at the end of every line.
>
> IMO vim is line oriented, and unwieldy with megabytes all in one
> line. I can imagine one wanting to do it after working on the file in
> vim, but in that case using a tool outside vim could work well:
>
> tr -d '\n' <x >y
> tr '\n' ' ' <x >z
>
> take less than 2 seconds on my PC for x having 8,295,474 lines,
> totalling 200 MB, with x obviously all in cache. ( tr is an ancient
> unix programme, but one can get Gnu utils for windows.) My vim (7.2
> on ubuntu) takes 14 s to load x, but doesn't cope at all with y or z.
>
> Regards, John
>
> >
>
>

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