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From: tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa)
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Subject: Re: double spacing a file w/ SED
Keywords: Simple SED doublespacing
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Date: 24 Apr 89 15:38:47 GMT
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You folks are thinking too hard.  The following SED command line will

	sed G file.name

The G appends the (empty) hold area to the pattern space with a newline
between them.

Yours for happy stream editing,
Greg Tarsa

 
Tarsa Software Consulting
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