Hello. I downloaded a text file from Project Gutenberg and the paragraphs were
hard wrapped, aka filled in Emacs jargon. I want the lines to wrap to whatever
window width I am using of course, so I want them to be un-wrapped in the text
file. I tried all sorts of sed/awk/grep/perl ways to unw
sed is the canonical paragraph mangler. It's worth spending a bit to grok how
that is true.
tr -d '\r' | sed '/^$/!{H;d;};p;x;s/\n/ /g;'
Gutenberg lines are CRLF-terminated so `tr` is needed.
On Tue, Mar 22, 2022, at 9:49 PM, 201009-suckl...@planhack.com wrote:
> sed is the canonical paragraph mangler. It's worth spending a bit to
> grok how that is true.
>
> tr -d '\r' | sed '/^$/!{H;d;};p;x;s/\n/ /g;'
>
> Gutenberg lines are CRLF-terminated so `tr` is needed.
Right I forgot to m
