I know its not in commandline, but in vim (maybe even vi) you could just /\n\n\n
This would find new lines... And you could jump between them with n.. and :set ruler so you can find linenumber On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:36 AM, Gary Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > > in my manuscript, i have many places where i'ved used several > newlines to indicate a > jump in time, or topic, or mood, or <<whatever>>. i have lost these > vertical spacing > in all but my original draft. can i use grep somehow to find these > extra newlines? > > if not grep, then sed, ed, or what?! > > tia, > > gary > > > > -- > Gary Kline [email protected] http://www.thought.org Public Service > Unix > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org > The 5.67a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [email protected]" > -- Med Venlig Hilsen Kalle R. Møller _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
