On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 07:29:25PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 06:14:04PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > > You mean replace each newline character with two newline characters? > > > > perl -p -i -e 's/\n/\n\n/g' yourfile.txt >
Hm. Didn't think of perl; but yeah. > The g in that is unnecessary. I'd also be inclined to use $ in the > matching part of that regex than \n, and only require one newline > character in the substitution part as a result: > > perl -pie 's/$/\n/' filename.txt I think the '$' wins because there might be an embedded newline. The pdf2html utility uses them to match the page-size of the PDF. > > Plus . . . I like pie. Yup. -g > > -- > Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php http://journey.thought.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"