How to remove a newline from a string in Bash

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Under bash, there are some bashisms:

The tr command could be replaced by // bashism:

COMMAND=$'\nREBOOT\r   \n'
echo "|${COMMAND}|"
|
   OOT
|

echo "|${COMMAND//[$'\t\r\n']}|"
|REBOOT   |

echo "|${COMMAND//[$'\t\r\n ']}|"
|REBOOT|

See Parameter Expansion and QUOTING in bash’s man page:

man -Pless\ +/\/pattern bash
man -Pless\ +/\\\'string\\\' bash

man -Pless\ +/^\\\ *Parameter\\\ Exp bash
man -Pless\ +/^\\\ *QUOTING bash

Further…

As asked by @AlexJordan, this will suppress all specified characters. So what if $COMMAND do contain spaces…

COMMAND=$'         \n        RE BOOT      \r           \n'
echo "|$COMMAND|"
|
           BOOT      
|

CLEANED=${COMMAND//[$'\t\r\n']}
echo "|$CLEANED|"
|                 RE BOOT                 |

shopt -q extglob || { echo "Set shell option 'extglob' on.";shopt -s extglob;}

CLEANED=${CLEANED%%*( )}
echo "|$CLEANED|"
|                 RE BOOT|

CLEANED=${CLEANED##*( )}
echo "|$CLEANED|"
|RE BOOT|

Shortly:

COMMAND=$'         \n        RE BOOT      \r           \n'
CLEANED=${COMMAND//[$'\t\r\n']} && CLEANED=${CLEANED%%*( )}
echo "|${CLEANED##*( )}|"
|RE BOOT|

Note: bash have extglob option to be enabled (shopt -s extglob) in order to use *(...) syntax.

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