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From: bhoughto@hopi.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Inserting Blank Line into File (sed/awk/?)
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Date: 16 Mar 91 14:59:46 GMT
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In article <ED.91Mar15201957@lvw6.lvw.loral.com> ed@lvw6.lvw.loral.com (Ed Allen) writes:
>Now for the 'sed' solution....
>sed -n -e '{N;N;p;a\
>
>}' filename
>Should work from 'sh', 'csh' is more particular about multi-line
>arguments.

Csh(1) version:

sed -n '{N;N;p;a\\
\
}' filename

				--Blair
				  "Picky, picky."