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11-26-2008

Muki101

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AWK scripting

I have a text file in which the text has been divided into paragraphs (two line breaks or tab marks a new paragraph) and I want to make a script which output would delete line breaks within the paragraph and the different paragraphs would be separated by two line breaks.

So, if my input file is:

Code:

     The first line.
Second line.

First line of the second paragraph.
Second line of the second paragraph.

I want the output to be something like:

Code:

The first line. Second line.

First line of the second paragraph. Second line of the second paragraph.

I have tried now for some hours to come up with something reasonable, but I seem to be heading the wrong way. I would be really pleased if someone gave their idea of how to solve the problem.

Thanks!

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