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
>
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