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I would like to join the result of ls -1 into one line and delimit it with whatever i want.
Are there any standard Linux commands I can use to achieve this?
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The paste command can merge lines from multiple input files. By default, it merges lines in a way that entries in the first column belong to the first file, those in the second column are for the second file, and so on. The -s option can let it merge lines row-wise.
The sed way. 'N' joins 2 lines. And we replace the newline with a comma.
Method # 1 – Using echo & Printf The simplest way to append multiple lines to a file is to use the echo and printf command. Let us start with echo. Echo is a command used to output a string or multiple strings as arguments.
EDIT: Simply "ls -m" If you want your delimiter to be a comma
Ah, the power and simplicity !
ls -1 | tr '\n' ',' Change the comma "," to whatever you want. Note that this includes a "trailing comma" (for lists that end with a newline)
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Similar to the very first option but omits the trailing delimiter
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