April 10, 2008 by Isaac Linux has many amazing programs that can be chained together to produce amazing results. Today I needed to turn a multi-line file into a CSV (comma separated) file. In Linux this is super easy:
cat file | tr '\n' ','
Basically, this will turn a file like this:
Line1 Line2 Line3 Line4
Into this:
Line1,Line2,Line3,Line4
Posted in Bash/Shell
 razak Posted: Oct 16th, 2008 at 2:23 am |
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hi, appriecate if you could help me, AAA = 34234 i need to convert this file to 34234;somedata;somedata2;94383058 and I tried to use “tr” command but failed, maybe because the end of line is not \n |
 Isaac Posted: Oct 21st, 2008 at 11:36 am |
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Something like this requires chaining a few commands together. One of the great strengths of Linux is the existence of many “small” commands that can be chained together. First, as you indicated, the line ending may need to be adjusted. Try running Also, it looks like you want to get rid of all the ‘=’ signs in you log files. Try this: |
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