Re: double spacing a file w/ SED

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From: Greg Tarsa
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 1989 15:38

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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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