[clug] Two (perhaps simple) shell questions.

[Robert Thorsby]

On 18/08/09 11:33:01, Andrew Janke wrote:
> 1) I had a need (really) to remove every second newline from a file
> the other day and all I could think of was this:
<snip>

If you are trying to convert two intervening blank lines into one blank 
line, try:
awk 'BEGIN{RS="\n\n"}{print($0)}' input.file > output.file

However, if you wish to halve the number of lines (regardless of their 
content) just print odd (or even) lines.

HTH,
Robert Thorsby
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