How do I remove newlines from a text file?

Question

I have the following data, and I need to put it all into one line.

I have this:

22791

;

14336

;

22821

;

34653

;

21491

;

25522

;

33238

;
         


        

Answer 1

use

head -n 1 filename | od -c 

to figure WHAT is the offending character. then use

tr -d '\n' 

for LF

tr -d '\r\n' 

for CRLF