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Old 10-11-2007
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Tjhis is awesome!

Can you explain a little bit what the argument "1" does here?

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Originally Posted by radoulov View Post
Code:
awk 1 RS= ORS="\n\n" filename

Use nawk or /usr/xpg4/bin/awk on Solaris.