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Old 10-25-2010
Creating a new line using awk?
Is there a way while using awk to print out lines, to create a new line after every line that is being displayed?
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Old 10-25-2010
man awk, and look for ORS.
Last edited by Scrutinizer; 10-26-2010 at 08:41 PM..
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Old 10-25-2010
Code:
awk '$0=$0"\n" ' infile
awk '$0=$0 ORS ' infile

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