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

I usually get this usecase when I'm copying a code snippet from a file and I want to paste it into a console without adding unnecessary new lines, I ended up doing a bash alias
( i called it oneline if you are curious )

xsel -b -o | tr -d '\n' | tr -s ' ' | xsel -b -i

• xsel -b -o reads my clipboard

• tr -d '\n' removes new lines

• tr -s ' ' removes recurring spaces

• xsel -b -i pushes this back to my clipboard

after that I would paste the new contents of the clipboard into oneline in a console or whatever.