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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Insert a string instead of blank lines Post 302636811 by birei on Tuesday 8th of May 2012 03:41:13 AM
Old 05-08-2012
Hi oreka18,

Do you mean substitute blank lines with '###'? One way:
Code:
$ perl -lpe 's/\A\s*\Z/###/' infile

 

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