vi Editor: How to replace newline/carriage and replace

Re: Replacing newline/carriage returns in a file with spaces

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> I have been trying to figure out how I can replace all the new line  > characters in a text file with spaces - need to do this to make html  > compatible with java and am too lazy to do it manually every time.  >  > Am sure there is a simple way to do it but I have looked and cant figure it  > out :(  Well, if you plan to do it regularly, you can use "tr" to do  exactly what you describe:   tr '\012' \040' <in.txt >out.txt  Or, if you want to do it in vim, you can do:          :%j  which will join all the lines in your file, normalizing  whitespace.  If you don't want Vim to be smart about it, you can  tell it to simply remove the newlines:          :%j!  Alternatively, you can use          :%s/\n/ /  which will do the same thing as the "tr" command, only it will  appropriately leave a \n at the end of the file.  As a side note, I'm not sure what it meens to "make html  compatible with java", as they're fairly disjoint languages.  One  is for markup; the other is for execution.