oneliner bash question

[gabriel]

i'm writing a script, that amon other things, gets the size of a file it's 
downloading and at the moment, i've got this working:

  ssh $host "du -sh "$path/$file | awk '{print $1}'"

but the problem is that tihs prints out "12M\n" and i'd like to remove the 
"\n".  i tried this:

  ssh $host "du -sh "$path/$file | awk '{print $1}' | sed -e 's/\n//g'"

but obviously my understanding of sed has a gap in it, 'cause this didn't 
work.  suggestions/help would be very much appreciated.

thanks.

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