Quoth Devin Teske on Thursday, 28 October 2010:
> On Thu, 2010-10-28 at 09:31 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 08:18:06AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote:
> > >
> > > > From: Gary Kline <kl...@thought.org>
> > > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@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. :-)
>
>
> awk '{print $0"\n"}'
>
> ^_^
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