Re: change paragraphs to long lines

Not that I've had the time to try this beautiful little snippet of code,
but I am too hopeful that this or something similar makes it into the
sed1line.txt, where it would've spared me hours of figuring it out by
myself!

☺

*winks to sven*


cheers, mih


Daniel Goldman writes:
> Let's hope this one makes it to the list. Last time, I forgot the default is to email the 
> person (private email), not the list.
> 
> prem wrote:
>  > Would not something like this do the same in a simpler way?
>  > You may have to use something other than "~" if you think it might
>  > already exist in the input.
>  >
>  > tr "\n" "~" input | sed -e '/s/~~/\n/g' -e '/~/ /g' > output
> 
> I modified your syntax some, there were some syntax mistakes (look below), but I agree it 
> is a simpler way.
> 
> $ cat input
> ONE two three one two three one two three one
> TWO three one two three one two three one two
> THREE one two three one two three one two
> 
> ONE two three one two three one two three one
> TWO three one two three one two three one two
> THREE one two three one two three one two
> 
> ONE two three one two three one two three one
> TWO three one two three one two three one two
> THREE one two three one two three one two
> 
> $ tr "\n" "~" < input | sed -e 's/~~/\n\n/g' -e 's/~/ /g'
> ONE two three one two three one two three one TWO three one two three one two three one 
> two THREE one two three one two three one two
> 
> ONE two three one two three one two three one TWO three one two three one two three one 
> two THREE one two three one two three one two
> 
> ONE two three one two three one two three one TWO three one two three one two three one 
> two THREE one two three one two three one two
> 
> Daniel

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