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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Search & Replace question Post 302450904 by bartus11 on Saturday 4th of September 2010 02:36:43 PM
Old 09-04-2010
Code:
 perl -0pe 'if (!s/\n\n$/\n/){s/$/\n/}' /tmp/text.txt > /tmp/text.tmp; mv /tmp/text.tmp /tmp/text.txt

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

nautilus-scripts-manager

NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)				      General Commands Manual				       NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)

NAME

       nautilus-scripts-manager - easy tool for nautilus scripts management

SYNOPSIS

       nautilus-scripts-manager [options]

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the nautilus-scripts-manager command.

       nautilus-scripts-manager is a program that allows any user to easily manage installed Nautilus scripts.

GENERAL OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --version
	      Show version of program.

COMMANDS

       One (and only one) of the following commands can be passed:

       -e, --enable=ENABLE
	      Enable script ENABLE.

       -d, --disable=DISABLE
	      Disable script DISABLE.

       -l, --list-enabled
	      List enabled scripts.

       -a, --list-available
	      List available scripts.

       If no command is provided, the graphical interface is started.

OPTIONS

       -e, --position=POSITION
	      In conjunction with -e or -d: establish the position of the script (can be just a name, or a path with slashes - quote it if it con-
	      tains spaces).

SEE ALSO

       nautilus(1),

AUTHOR

       nautilus-scripts-manager and this manual page were written by Pietro Battiston <me@pietrobattiston.it>.

       This manual page was written for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								   July 14, 2009				       NAUTILUS-SCRIPTS-MANAGER(1)
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