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From: bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ubben Greg)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: double spacing a file w/ SED
Summary: sed G
Message-ID: <1102@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 23 Apr 89 23:26:20 GMT
References: <28000@conexch.UUCP> <3365@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: bink@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Greg Ubben)
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In article <3365@ddsw1.MCS.COM> nvk@ddsw1.UUCP (Norman Kohn) writes:
>In article <28000@conexch.UUCP> chris@conexch.UUCP (Chris Bailey) writes:
>>How can I double space a file using SED?
>
>It would be a whole lot easier to do it with a shell script or with
>awk... SED is oriented to lines, yet you're trying to do something that
>involves more than a line (at least in the output)

Wrong, bucko.  The problem was meant for SED!
The command to double-space on Unix is simply:  sed G
To triple-space instead, use:  sed "G;G"
If this doesn't work on other versions, try the slightly more verbose a (i)
command instead to insert a blank line after (before) every line.  Example:
	sed 'a\
	' filename

Chris:  Using your idea, the command would be
	sed 's/$/\
	/' filename

SED can do more than most people think.  They turn to the more cumbersome
AWK only because they don't understand SED.  I challenge you to write a
more concise script in AWK or shell, or even one that runs faster.

					-- Greg Ubben, "A SED fanatic"
					   aplcen.apl.jhu.edu