I need to combine a few thousand multi line txt files into individual lines in a master file.

I need to combine lots of text files into one file-but each file is 6 or 7 lines long, and I need to remove the line breaks so each file is an individual line in the output. I feel like I should be able to do this with CAT, but can't figure out how.  Perhaps there's aother tool that would allow me to stip the line breaks before I cat them all together? (and perhaps this is a question that should be posted somewhere else?)

You can remove the line breaks with tr -d '\n', :
  tr -d '\n' < file > newfile
If all the files are in the same directory, just use a loop:
for i in ~/Desktop/*.txt ; do tr -d '\n' < $i >> ~/Desktop/Untitled3.tmp; echo >> ~/Desktop/Untitled3.tmp; done
If in multiple directories, you can use find, but the files need similar names (i.e., Untitledxxx.xxx).
BTW, best place for this question would be the "Mac OS X Technologies" forum with a tag of UNIX
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