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Reputation: 639

Replace \n(new line) with space in bash

I am reading some sql queries into a variable from db and it contains new line character (\n). I want to replace \n (new line) with space. I tried solutions provided on internet but was unsuccessful to achieve what I want. Here is what tried :

strr="my\nname\nis\nxxxx";
nw_strr=`echo $strr | tr '\n' ' '`;
echo $nw_strr;

my desired output is "my name is xxxx" but what I am getting is "my\nname\nis\nxxxx". I also tried other solution provided at internet, but no luck: 

nw_strr=`echo $strr | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g'`;

Am I doing something wong?

Upvotes: 22

Views: 35465

Answers (2)

zabop
zabop

Reputation: 7832

If you want to keep using pipes, you can do:

string_with_spaces=$(echo "$string_with_newlines" | tr '\n' ' ')

Source.

Upvotes: 5

Cyrus
Cyrus

Reputation: 88543

With bash:

Replace all newlines with a space:

nw_strr="${strr//$'\n'/ }"

Replace all strings \n with a space:

nw_strr="${strr//\\n/ }"

Upvotes: 35

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