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Question

[Sam]

How I can convert this text file ?

Thanks

AKT3
BCL2L11
EGFR
EIF4E
EIF4EBP1
ERBB2
AKT1
FGF2

convert to:

AKT3, BCL2L11, EGFR, EIF4EBP1, ERBB2, AKT1, FGF2

Answer 1

[Devon Ryan]

tr "\n" , < foo.txt  | sed -e "s/,/, /g; s/, $/\n/"

I'm assuming your lines don't already have a space at the end. If they do, you can omit the s/,/, /g;.

Answer 2

[venu]

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