Using tr to replace newline with space

replace newline space git-bash tr
y.bregey picture y.bregey · Sep 13, 2014 · Viewed 175.8k times · Source

Have output from sed:

http://sitename.com/galleries/83450
72-profile

Those two strings should be merged into one and separated with space like:

http://sitename.com/galleries/83450 72-profile

Two strings are pipelined to tr in order to replace newline with space:

tr '\n' ' '

And it's not working, the result is the same as input.

Indicating space with ASCII code '\032' results in replacing \n with non-printable characters.

What's wrong? I'm using Git Bash on Windows.

Answer

Garr Godfrey picture Garr Godfrey · Sep 13, 2014

Best guess is you are on windows and your line ending settings are set for windows. See this topic: How to change line-ending settings

or use:

tr '\r\n' ' '

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