01-04-2011
Adding a blank line after every 5th line
Hello...
I have a file which contain certain number of records.
I want to generate another file from this file which will contain 1st line as a blank line & after every 5 lines one blank line will be inserted. How to achieve this through shell scripting?
Thanks...
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