tjluoma/make-one-line.sh

Created October 3, 2014 14:48

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This is one of those easy things I wish I had done a long time ago: it takes whatever is on the pasteboard, removes any ‘\’ at EOL, changes any tabs or newlines into spaces, and then makes sure that the output does not have more than one consecutive space (to make it nice and even). I invoke this via Keyboard Maestro.

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pbpaste | sed 's#\\$##g' | tr -s '\012|\t' ' ' | tr -s ' ' ' '

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