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

Was having the same case today, super easy in vim or nvim, you can use gJ to join lines. For your use case, just do

99gJ

this will join all your 99 lines. You can adjust the number 99 as need according to how many lines to join. If just join 1 line, then only gJ is good enough.