Revisions to There must be a better way to replace single newlines only?

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edited Feb 4, 2011 at 20:06

$ sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\(.\)\n\{1\}\n/\1 /g' -e 's/\n/\n\n/' test.text

Note, that in this solution :a is creating a label and not using the a command.

Use tr: $ tr -s ' ' <test.text

$ sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\(.\)\n\{1\}/\1 /g' -e 's/\n/\n\n/' test.text

Note, that in this solution :a is creating a label and not using the a command.

Use tr: $ tr -s ' ' <test.text

$ sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\(.\)\n/\1 /g' -e 's/\n/\n\n/' test.text

Note, that in this solution :a is creating a label and not using the a command.

Use tr: $ tr -s ' ' <test.text

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answered Feb 4, 2011 at 20:00

$ sed -e ':a;N;$!ba;s/\(.\)\n\{1\}/\1 /g' -e 's/\n/\n\n/' test.text

Note, that in this solution :a is creating a label and not using the a command.

Use tr: $ tr -s ' ' <test.text

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