[Gllug] sed script for removing lone new line characters

[David Damerell]

On Friday, 3 Mar 2006, Dan Stevens (IAmAI) wrote:
>Perhaps I give my own example of what I have now, and how I would like
>it after processing.
>$ cat before
>I would like this line
>and this line, on one line.
>
>But I would like a blank line between this paragraph and the previous.

'taint sed, but;

< input-file perl -we '@foo=<>; $foo=join ("", at foo),$foo=~s/([^\n])\n([^\n])/$1 $2/g;print $foo;'

I eagerly await the email pointing out what a silly way of doing this
that is.

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