okay, time to ask the wizards.

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:18:06AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> 
> > From: Gary Kline <kline at thought.org>
> > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> > Cc: 
> > Subject: okay, time to ask the wizards.
> >
> > I've got a very large file with paragraphs separated only by "\n".
> > How do I put a blank line _after_ each newline?
> 
> have you tried something as simple as
> 
>    sed -e 's/\n/&&/' <infile >outfile
> -or-
>    awk  '{print; print "";}' infile
> --
>    


	There's another way, using awk.  :-)

	gary


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