[CentOS] perl code to remove newlines

John Doe wrote:
 
> $ cat $FILE | tr "\n" " " | sed 's/ *></>\n</g'

I was yearning for someone to chime with that!
sed is clearly the best & most straightforward way to do
this task.

I can't help myself - there's a "useless use of cat":

$ < $FILE tr "\n" " " | sed 's/ *></>\n</g'

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