Transpose one line/lines from column to row using shell
Solution 1:
If that's a single column, which you want to convert to row, then there are many possibilities:
tr -d '\n' < filename ; echo # option 1 OR
xargs echo -n < filename ; echo # option 2 (This option however, will shrink spaces & eat quotes) OR
while read x; do echo -n "$x" ; done < filename; echo # option 3
Please let us know, how the input would look like, for multi-line case.
Solution 2:
A funny pure bash solution (bash ≥ 4.1):
mapfile -t < file.txt; printf '%s' "${MAPFILE[@]}" $'\n'
Done!