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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Inserting Blank Line into File (sed/awk/?)
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.194615.5693@druid.uucp>
Date: 17 Mar 91 19:46:15 GMT
References: <807@oss670.UUCP> <1991Mar15.190607.5061@convex.com>
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1991Mar15.190607.5061@convex.com> Tom Christiansen writes:
>From the keyboard of tkevans@oss670.UUCP (Tim Evans):
>:I would like to be able to insert blank lines at regular intervals
>    awk '{ print; if (!(NR % 3)) print "\n" }'

Nope.  Either leave out the newline in the print statement or use printf
instead of print.  The way you have it you get 2 lines instead of one.

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