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Thank you for this, quite useful to me as well.

Thank you, it works perfectly.

I can see it uses a different approach. Now I can learn more. :)

Such brevity, but at the same time expressivity, that is why I feel AWK is so elegant.

Thank...

Hi,

It works beautifully, and it is amazingly fast!

The file names are written with a colon, which is not allowed on OS X:
dw:1.txt, is there a way to have a dash instead, like
dw-1.txt?
...

Hello,

Although I have found similar questions, I could not find advice that could help with our problem.

The issue:

We have a few thousands text files (books).

Each book has many...

Wow, thank you so much birei!

Thank you for the explanation, and also for your code.
It is just elegant, and it works perfectly.

Thank you so much once again.

Sam

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Hello,

Although I have found similar questions, I could not find
advice that could help with my problem. The issue:

I am trying to replace all occurrences of a regex, but
I cannot make the...

@radoulov,

That is an *awesome* explanation. :b: :b: :b: :b:

I am so grateful for the code and the lesson.

Thank you!

@binlib,

I do have gawk, and I can confirm that the your code works also perfectly.

Thank you!

Excellent! It works flawlessly now.

I felt bad that I bothered you to tweak the code, but now I am happy. In that way, looking at how you have improved it, I can learn even more :)

Thank you so...

I simplified a test case, with different number of newlines:



[block 4] The grooves separate a series of rounded bars or arches, the
branchial or visceral arches, in which thickening of the...

Wow, thank you so much Radoulov!

That AWK code is just beautiful, and it works perfectly.

The only minor issue is that not all the blocks of text are separated by the same number of new lines....

Hello,

Although I have found similar questions, I could not find advice that
could help with our problem.

The issue:

We have several hundreds text files containing repeated blocks of text...