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Hello
I have a file like this

Code:

Anyway, if you are sincere
in finding the druid Alcuin

then you're going to need ships.

die with the faith that you
have stood shield to shield

with your brothers.

To honour, to glory, to a valiant death

and then on to the hall of heroes. Skal!

And I want the file like this

Code:

Anyway, if you are sincere
in finding the druid Alcuin...

then you're going to need ships.

die with the faith that you
have stood shield to shield...

with your brothers.

To honour, to glory, to a valiant death...

and then on to the hall of heroes. Skal!

I want to put three points(...) after Alcuin shield and death.
I know how to do it for every line who ends on a letter.

Code:

sed 's/[a-z]$/&.../g'  file

But this put also the points after sincere and you.
But that cannot.
I don't want the three points om the first line between two empty lines,
only on the last line between two empty lines.
Thanks

An awk solution:

Code:

awk '{ if ($0 ~ /[[:alpha:]]$/) {print $0 "..."} else {print} }' RS="" ORS="\n\n" file

How about doing it for each keyword...

Code:

sed -e 's/Alcuin$/&.../' -e 's/shield$/&.../' -e 's/death$/&.../' file

Nice solution CarloM, it can be simplified slightly:

Code:

awk '/[[:alpha:]]$/ {$0=$0 "..."}1' RS="" ORS="\n\n" infile2

I'm gone try this possible solutions but I can't use the solution from shamrock because the words are examples so in every file I have different words but anyway thanks.

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P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; } Hello

The solutions that you give me doesn't work on my computer but I
try now this :
awk '{ if ($0 ~ /[a-z]$/) {print $0"..."} else {print $0} }' file
(but that is the same like the solution with sed :sed 's/[a-z]$/&.../g' file)
en this works but he put the three points on every line who ends with a
letter.
The problem is that he can put only on the last line between two empty
lines. So when I have only one line between two empty lines he must do it.
When I have two lines between two empty lines he must take only the last line.
example



To honour, to glory, to a valiant death


and then on to the hall of heroes. Skal!


Why don't you just give
Lord Beothric what he wants?


die with the faith that you
have stood shield to shield


with your brothers.


In this example he must put only after the words “ death shield “ the three points
and not after “give you”.
The empty lines are imported and they cannot away.
So the output must be like this


To honour, to glory, to a valiant death...


and then on to the hall of heroes. Skal!


Why don't you just give
Lord Beothric what he wants?


die with the faith that you
have stood shield to shield ...


with your brothers.
Thanks

It doesn't work because you missed out part of the command:

Code:

awk '{ if ($0 ~ /[a-z]$/) {print $0"..."} else {print $0} }' RS="" ORS="\n\n" file

Also, please use [code] tags - it makes your code and data a lot easier to use.

hello
this code do the thing
awk '{ if ($0 ~ /[a-z]$/) {print $0"..."} else {print $0} }' RS="" ORS="\n\n" file
thanks for the help.
I want to close this thread but don't know how?